Press Releases

Today, on International Human Rights Day, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – urgently calls for the immediate withdrawal and categorical rejection of the...

On 27 November 2025, the Disciplinary Court of the Bar Association in the District of Tel Aviv, suspended the license to practice law of lawyer Maha Ighbaria, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, for...

On 28 November 2025, the United Nations Committee Against Torture issued its concluding observations on its 6th review of Israel’s implementation of the international Convention Against...

The Systematic Erasure and Destruction of Palestinian Identity and Existence

Human rights organizations demand that Israel immediately resume the evacuation of patients from the Gaza Strip for lifesaving treatment in hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and file...

The money had been paid by the fishermen as a guarantee to the state against return of two boats to the Strip in 2022, following their seizure by the Israeli navy for allegedly exceeding the...

The Knesset’s Ethics Committee has suspended MK Cassif five times since December 2022, for a total of ten months; Adalah argued that these illegal suspections strip him of his ability to perform...

Over the past days, Adalah has documented serious abuses suffered by the participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla, unlawfully intercepted by Israeli forces on 1 and 2 October 2025. According to...

Mass displacement orders from Gaza City constitute forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing – war crimes amounting to crimes against humanity

Yesterday evening, 4 September 2025, the U.S. administration added to its sanctions list the renowned Palestinian human rights organizations and our close partners, Al Mezan Center for Human...

Israel is obligated to allow the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian aid to the population, wherever they are located, including in active combat zones.

In a letter to the Israeli Police and Justice Dept. officials, Adalah demands a thorough investigation into attack and incitement, and calls for perpetrators to be held accountable.

On 22 July 2025, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent legal letter to Israel’s Attorney General,and to the Legal Advisor to the Israel Security Agency...

This page provides ongoing updates from Adalah on the situation of 21 international activists detained by Israeli authorities after the unlawful interception of the Freedom Flotilla...

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has sent an urgent legal letter to Israeli authorities demanding information on the whereabouts of 21 activists—including...

On 13 July 2025, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, sent a legal letter to the the Chair of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, the Attorney...

On 15 July 2025, Adalah sent a letter in its own name and on behalf of Gisha, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel to the Defense Minister Yisrael Katz,...

On Monday 14 July 2025, the Knesset Plenum failed to get the 90 votes needed to expel MK Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Hadash/Jabha political party, from the Knesset. Seventy-three MKs voted in...

Petitioners’ homes lie adjacent to vacant land, undermining the Israeli military’s claim of needing operational space; the Court instructed the military not to carry out the demolitions in the...

Five human rights organizations in Israel – Gisha, Adalah, HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel...