Press Releases

Today’s Knesset committee hearing about the request to expel Palestinian MK Ayman Odeh from the Israeli Knesset provided the clearest and most direct evidence that this is part of an...

Four Israel-based human rights organizations warn Israel’s Defense Minister, Attorney General, and Military Advocate General that Israel's "voluntary emigration" policy from the Gaza Strip...

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 the 12 activists forcibly...

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 the 12 activists forcibly...

Petition seeks to cancel and halt demolition orders targeting 104 buildings, home to around 1,000 Palestinian refugees in two refugee camps

Next week, beginning on Monday 28 April, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will begin public hearings on Israel’s obligations in relation to the United Nations, including UNRWA and...

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, 17 April 2025, Adalah calls for immediate international action to end Israel’s unlawful detention regime, dismantle its system of torture camps –...

We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations in Israel, write with grave concern and urgent alarm over the Israeli government's intensified efforts to dismantle civil society,...

Today, 29 January 2025, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a request for an interim injunction filed by Adalah along with its petition challenging two laws aimed at shutting down the operations...

The petition, filed by Adalah on behalf of Palestinian refugees and partner human rights organization Gisha, calls for the immediate cancellation of two laws enacted by the Knesset to halt all...

Adalah has documented over 60 detention cases from protests in Haifa since the start of the war on Gaza, exposing a troubling pattern of police misconduct designed to illegally crackdown on...

On 9 January 2025, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled on a petition filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on behalf of Mohammad Barakeh, Chair of the High...

The Israeli Supreme Court upheld the sweeping policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinian citizens of Israel without individual assessments, to use as bargaining chips in political negotiations...

In its ruling on petitions filed against the amendment to the Police Ordinance that was passed when Ben-Gvir came into office, the Court only cancelled a provision that grants the Minister control...

The government is advancing a plan to allocate land to so-called "settlement nuclei" in new towns in the Naqab, effectively ensuring that these towns will be exclusively Jewish....

Newly passed laws grant the state the authority to deport Palestinian families - both citizens of Israel and residents of occupied East Jerusalem - linked to “terrorist operatives” and impose...

Adalah: The Knesset has nearly unanimously passed two laws aimed at dismantling UNRWA, in a deliberate attempt to strip over 2.5 million Palestinian refugees of their status and their right of...

In a letter to Israeli authorities, Adalah warns that the bills pose a grave threat to the UN relief agency in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and violate various international...

Adalah’s new briefing paper outlines a troubling wave of new discriminatory legislation targeting Palestinians, detailing key bills in advanced stages of the legislative process.

In its review of Israel, the UN Children’s Rights Committee called for urgent actions by Israel to: Address the ongoing violence in Gaza, imploring Israel to comply with the ICJ’s provisional...