Press Releases

Adalah: The decision of the State Prosecutor's Office to pursue an investigation against Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian flagrantly violates her right to freedom of expression, contradicts the rule of...

Adalah: The transfer of such powers to a ‘civil’ minister further exacerbates violations of international law, encompassing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of aggression through...

Adalah: Genocidal statements made by members of the cabinet reflect the state policy of intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians. The legal authorities' consistent failure to hold officials...

The petition argues that the authorities are persisting in their abusive treatment of the family by unlawfully withholding the deceased's body in a cruel and inhumane manner.

Adalah: This Supreme Court decision reinforces the institutional support consistently extended to Israel's police officers for the killing of Palestinians, solely based on shooters' claims of...

Adalah: The suspension was motivated by ideological positions that seek to align with the Jewish-Zionist consensus and the decision places this institution among the ranks of the darkest regimes in...

In a letter addressed to the relevant police officials, Adalah argued that the police had conducted a violent and unlawful raid on the mourning tent, seemingly with vindictive and punitive intentions.

On Monday, March 18th, five human rights organizations in Israel filed a petition (Hebrew) calling on Israel’s High Court to order the Israeli government, Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and...

Today, on 8 March 2024, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. This year, the day comes at a time when Palestinian women in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in...

The Attorney General’s office and the State Attorney’s office since 7 October has consistently failed to intervene in the political misuse of the police force and of the criminal procedure...

On 19 February 2024, Adalah, HaMoked, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel jointly submitted a plea to the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur...

Human rights defenders Ahmad Khalifa and Mohammad Abu El Taher Jabareen are facing severe charges for chanting commonly used slogans during a Palestinian anti-war protest.

Palestinian human rights groups challenge illegal Israeli gas exploration licenses off Gaza’s coast: Adalah demands that Israel revoke the tenders which violate international law; Al Mezan,...

Adalah's appeal to the Be'er Sheva District Court, on behalf of the entire population of over 500 residents of the Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah in the Naqab, argues that the magistrate court’s...

Today, the Knesset’s House Committee voted to expel Hadash MK Ofer Cassif, based on his public support for South Africa's application to the ICJ accusing Israel of genocide. Adalah: The motion is...

Today, 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released its first order and provisional measures in the case of South Africa v. Israel finding South Africa’s contention that...

The State Attorney's Office has still not responded to Adalah’s appeal, almost two years after it was filed. Adalah: At a time when Minister Ben Gvir is doubling efforts to arm thousands of...

The students were suspended until the conclusion of proceedings following alleged "support of terrorism" on social media.

The petition seeks to prevent the police from imposing conditions on protests that do not require a permit and challenges the ongoing de facto ban imposed on protest vigils organized by the High...

Read Since Hamas’s attacks on October 7 and the ensuing outbreak of the war, the undersigned organizations, four prominent human rights groups based in Israel that regularly monitor detention...