Press Releases

Israeli military is violating both international and Israeli law by preventing Gaza emergency search and rescue teams from locating and treating casualties.

Adalah will call for investigation into those responsible for Israeli killings in Gaza and will demand those found responsible be brought to justice.

Israel's attacks on Palestinian fishermen off Gaza Strip coast conducted without any authority and in violation of international law.

It is illegal under IHL to impose upon East Jerusalem residents an obligation of loyalty to the occupying power

Military personnel involved in attack that killed four children told Israeli military investigators attack was launched under assumption that only Hamas members would enter area.

Settlement Regularization Law allows Israel to 'legalize' settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land via de facto expropriation.

Court fee to rise from 1,794 to 5,400 shekels; Israeli plan intended to reduce number of petitions filed by Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories to Supreme Court.

Adalah, JLAC, Al Mezan: But AG’s position still allows for expropriation of private Palestinian land, violates international law banning construction of civilian settlements on occupied territories.

Israeli military reveals it’s holding bodies of Palestinians pulled from detonated Gaza tunnel; international humanitarian law forbids holding bodies as bargaining chips.

Adalah, Al Mezan: Preventing rescue of missing persons in area under Israeli military control is illegal policy contrary to Geneva Conventions; forbidden to use trapped people as bargaining chips.

Adalah, Al Mezan demand Israeli military halt threats; Geneva Convention: Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among civilian population are prohibited.

Adalah: Israeli police killing of 13 Palestinian protesters in 2000 was motivated by racism; in 2017, Justice Ministry PID continues to whitewash investigations of police killings of Arab citizens.

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.

Israeli missile attack killed 4 kids playing soccer during 2014 Gaza war; Israeli delays, investigative failures threaten any chance of bringing to justice those responsible for killing of civilians.

Adalah & JLAC: Israeli government response to Supreme Court petition against Settlements Regularization Law views West Bank settlements as already annexed to Israel.

Adalah, JLAC, Al Mezan: Freezing actions against settlement structures on private Palestinian lands allows continued violation of Palestinian property rights in West Bank.

1 August 2017 marks three years since “Black Friday” in Rafah, intensive military attacks that killed 255 Palestinians, including 85 children, and wounded hundreds more.

The undersigned human rights organizations hereby call on the international community to urge Israel to cease its ongoing, systematic human rights violations against the hunger-strikers.

Adalah, Al Mezan, and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights call on Human Rights Council to ensure Israelis responsible for killings, damages during 2014 Gaza war be held accountable.

UN: Every day, more women identify themselves as human rights defenders; European Union must act to prevent the further closing of civil society space in Israel.