Press Releases

Adalah to AG: Bombing Civilian Neighborhoods and Killing and Injuring Civilians in Gaza Constitute War Crimes

On 31 December 2008, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Attorney General (AG) demanding that he order the General Security Services (GSS or the "Shabak") to cease the summoning of Arab leaders of...

In the afternoon on 1 January 2009, the Israeli police released the actors Hanan Helou and Saleh Bakri from detention. They had been arrested the night before at a demonstration in Haifa where...

Today, 31 December 2008, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the Attorney General and the Director of the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) demanding that the Palestinian detainees and political...

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and a coalition of 10 human rights organisations based in Israel, including Adalah, request your immediate personal intervention on behalf of six of the sick and...

Adalah has taken action against the detention and arrests of numerous protestors participating in demonstrations against the Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past few days. During a protest staged...

A letter to the Member State of the UN Human Rights Council

Adalah has established an emergency hotline to respond to and monitor the consequences of the ongoing attacks by the Israeli military in Gaza. Fearing the use of police violence against...

On 9 December 2008, the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) released a report on its recent review of Israel held on 4 December 2008. Most of the...

On 4 December 2008, Israel underwent review for the first time by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Many issues highlighted...

On 4 December 2008, Adalah sent a letter to Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak and Attorney General Menachem Mazuz demanding that they immediately allow international aid and development...

On 25 November 2008, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the Director of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Attorney General demanding that the IPS end discrimination against Palestinian...

On 6 November 2008, Adalah submitted its concluding arguments to the Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) Magistrates’ Court against evacuation orders issued by the state of Israel against all residents...

On 27 October 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on two petitions filed by Adalah and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, demanding that residents of Gaza be permitted...

Following a hearing held before the Supreme Court of Israel on 10 September 2008 on a petition filed by members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and residents of East Jerusalem against...

Adalah: No other country in the world prevents people from exercising the right to family life based on national or ethnic belonging, as Israel does Following an order nisi issued by the Supreme...

On 28 July 2008, the Knesset enacted the Citizenship Bill (Amendment No. 9) into law. The letter, which follows, was sent to the Members of the Knesset, prior to the enactment of the law urging...

“Preventing detainees from meeting their attorneys for long periods of time and not allowing judicial review of detention orders for 28 days place detainees in great danger, as meeting with...

On 1 July 2008, a 21-8 majority of the Israeli Knesset approved an extension to the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for an additional year until July 2009. The Knesset...

Preventing family visits has in practice led to the complete isolation of approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from the outside world Today, 17 June 2008, Adalah filed a petition to the...