Jerusalem

In a position paper, Adalah lays out how the guiding principles and coalition agreements of the new Israeli government intend to deepen Jewish supremacy and racial segregation as the underlying...

In a new position paper, Adalah lays out how the guiding principles and coalition agreements of the new Israeli government intend to deepen Jewish supremacy and racial segregation as the underlying...

The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is to hold a hearing on an objection filed by Adalah, in cooperation with the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in...

Israeli troops have sealed off 130,000 Palestinians in five residential areas, imposing sweeping collective punishment including power cuts, spraying of foul-smelling ‘skunk’ water, and firing...

Israeli police employing excessive force and extreme violence, wounding hundreds of Palestinian worshipers and emergency medical staff; Israeli police also blocking Palestinian worshipers from...

Following Adalah’s legal action against East J’lem demolitions: Israel announced last week it would freeze demolitions nationwide; Adalah: Israel must allow legal construction and stop...

Israeli health authorities’ failures had put the lives of 150,000 residents of overcrowded and densely-populated Kufr Aqab and Shuafat refugee camp at grave risk; Adalah: These new measures are...

International humanitarian law forbids Israel from imposing obligation of loyalty upon Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem.

Then-interior minister Roni Bar On revoked residency of four parliamentarians in wake of 2006 Palestinian elections, in move Adalah & ARCI called a grave rights violation.

Adalah calls for immediate halt to police ban on residents of Arab city in central Israel from entering Jerusalem holy site; police cannot legally justify sweeping human rights violations.

Supreme Court rules police must return bodies of three Al Aqsa shooting suspects, Palestinian citizens of Israel, to families for burial within 30 hours; says no law permits police to hold bodies.

In response to Adalah petition, Israeli Supreme Court decides to hold hearing on issue Sunday; Adalah: No law permits Israeli police to hold bodies and prevent families from burying their children.

Israel imposes collective punishment on Palestinian residents, preventing them from accessing homes and businesses, in violation of both Israeli and international law.

Video of Israeli police shooting of one individual appears to indicate he posed no serious immediate danger that would have justified the use of intensive and fatal gunfire.

Plan to expand Jerusalem-area settlement onto Beit Jala is breach of international law, serious violation of Palestinian property rights.

Adalah and Addameer: Positive announcement comes despite Israel’s repeated stalling and evasion of obligations to date.

Petitioners: There is no rational relationship between social welfare benefits and punishment for criminal offenses.

"Everyone has the right to be buried quickly, honorably and properly. It is an integral part of the right to dignity, because human dignity is not only the dignity of a man’s life, but also his...

Adalah: Collective punishment undermines fundamental rights of residents to human dignity and freedom of movement, and violates international law

"International laws prohibit deportation of protected residents on the grounds of breach of loyalty, and prohibit the occupier from requiring them to swear allegiance to the occupying power."