Press Releases

Adalah demands Israeli prison service act immediately to halt continuing spread of virus and to provide sufficient treatment for infected prisoners.

Authorities allege construction and land-use violations, but 2019 plan allows for residential and commercial development, and provides path to retroactive legitimacy for area businesses.

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to stop issuing visas for foreign nationals employed by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human...

Israeli Border Police officer shot dead 32-year-old autistic man Eyad al-Hallaq in Jerusalem’s Old City on 30 May 2020 as he was making his way to special needs school.

Magen David Adom’s website currently provides only Hebrew and English options; Adalah: Lack of essential public health updates in Arabic constitutes disregard for lives of nearly two million...

Adalah, Addameer, PCATI, PHRI call on international community to urge Israel to allow al-Akhras to move to West Bank hospital or to release him immediately – before it is too late.

150,000 Arab students in Israel lacking computers, electricity, or internet access are unable to connect to online remote-learning solutions and cannot secure their basic right to education.

11-year-old Hamze was bused to an Arab school six kilometers from his home; Adalah demanded Ramle municipality reverse decision blocking him from school preferred by his family and just 250 meters...

Following Adalah’s legal action against East J’lem demolitions: Israel announced last week it would freeze demolitions nationwide; Adalah: Israel must allow legal construction and stop...

Israeli news report reveals army’s Home Front Command seeking current and former security agents with expertise in ‘Arab society and culture’; Adalah warned: Use of secretive security...

October 2000 killings, 20 years later | From October 2000 to Ya'akub Abu al-Qi'an: In new statement adopted by High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens, Adalah demands end to impunity for Israeli...

Ban stipulates only specific Knesset members authorized by Israel’s internal security minister may visit Palestinian ‘security prisoners’; ban violates MKs' immunity and parliamentary rights.

In 2018, Adalah called on Israel’s attorney general to intervene and order an independent investigation into the killing of Ya'akub Abu al-Qi'an due to fears of fatal flaws, conflicts of...

Residents of Misgav-area villages in northern Israel demand subsidized programs in accordance with their socio-economic ranking; parents now pay five times more than the amount paid by parents in...

Hastily-legislated law designed to combat COVID-19 allows Israel’s government to impose sweeping restrictions that violate civil liberties with zero parliamentary oversight.

Supreme Court’s decision criticized the Israeli government, despite dismissing Adalah’s petition, after approval of comprehensive ‘Major Coronavirus Law’. Court did not decide on principle...

As Adalah's director, Hassan Jabareen has led a long series of struggles for the rights of the Arab minority in Israel, utilizing legal tools – first and foremost petitions to the Supreme Court...

Adalah: Israel’s extreme, barbaric, illegal policy is motivated by vengeance; Adalah now leading legal fight to return body of Ahmad Erekat, shot dead by Israeli Border Police outside Jerusalem...

NGOs had called on Israel to immediately halt ban on entry of fuel to Gaza, which has disabled power plant and threatens public health as Gaza faces COVID-19 outbreak.

Adalah takes series of new legal actions to defend rights of East J’lem Palestinians in shadow of renewed outbreak; 50% of city’s new patients are Palestinians; Israel resumes demolitions of...