Press Releases

On 14 February 2012, Adalah revealed that the Israeli military order prohibiting ships and individuals from traveling to the Gaza Strip was issued after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla left Turkish...

We were shocked to hear today about the recent violent attacks over the past two weeks against our colleague Mahmoud Abu Rahma, the international relations director of Al Mezan and an...

On 11 January 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 6-5 decision, delivered a 232-page judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law – 2003 (as amended...

As is known, following the 31.5.10 overtaking of the flotilla to Gaza, the Attorney General ordered the launching of a police investigation that centered on violent criminal offenses carried out...

I would like to thank the Government of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority for inviting me to visit Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and for their cooperation before and...

Despite awarding compensation to the family of a Chinese worker who was killed while working in the former Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal, located in the southern Gaza Strip prior to its...

On 24 October 2011, Adalah filed a petition to the Jerusalem Administrative Court against Israel's policy of preventing residents of the Gaza Strip who file tort lawsuits against the Israeli...

On 24 October 2011, Adalah filed a petition to the Jerusalem Administrative Court against Israel's policy of preventing residents of the Gaza Strip who file tort lawsuits against the Israeli...

On 18 October 2011 Adalah, the Yaffa Youth Movement and the Saraya Theatre held a political seminar to mark the 11th anniversary of the October 2000 killings and the release of Adalah's new report...

Adalah, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Arab Association for Human Rights welcome the prisoners swap agreement recently announced between Israel and the Hamas movement. Although there...

On 2 October 2011, Adalah, in cooperation with Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights – Gaza, sent an urgent letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to...

On 27 September 2011, more than 100 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike to protest the intentionally harmful policies of the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) toward them, including...

(Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israel) Today, 1 September 2011, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), together with its partners Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Al...

On 1 August 2011, after extensive correspondence, Adalah received a written response from the Israeli military prosecutor for the Israeli navy informing it that dozens of fishermen from Gaza would...

On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Member of Knesset (MK) Amnon Cohen, Chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee, demanding that a bill to amend the Prisons Ordinance that would increase...

Today, 26 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights have released a new position paper calling for an...

On 26 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to the Israel Prison Service (IPS) demanding that it prepare for the hot, summer weather by immediately improving conditions and installing air cooling devices...

On 13 June 2011, Adalah sent a letter to Mr. Daniel Lavi, Head of the Israeli Water Board to demand that three unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages of Umm el-Hieran, Gatamat and Tel Arad in the Naqab...

(Haifa, Israel) Yesterday, 26 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel ordered Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to explain its decision to revoke certain parliamentary privileges of Member of...

Adalah successfully concluded its training course for lawyers on “Representing Detainees in Detention and Investigation Procedures” held on 17-18 March and 7-8 April 2011 at Al-Tantour Center...