Press Releases

The Israeli Supreme Court issued a late-night ruling on Christmas eve, 24 December 2025, rejecting a petition filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on behalf...

On 14 December 2025, the Israeli government decided to cut approximately NIS 220 million (about US $68.3 million) that had been allocated to social and educational programs for Palestinian citizens...

On 15 December 2025, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel submitted two urgent letters to the president of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and the chairman of its board...

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...

The petition, filed by Adalah for the Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages, local committees, and Bimkom, challenges the approval of “temporary housing” plans that envisions displacement...

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...

Adalah filed a lawsuit on 17 November 2025 to the Tel Aviv District Court requesting the annulment of Bar-Ilan University’s decision to prevent student Hala Odeh, an undergraduate optometry...

Adalah, which represented the residents, condemns the ruling, noting the court has provided “judicial cover for Israel’s policies of segregation and apartheid” in the Naqab (Negev)

The Israeli Supreme Court will hold a hearing tomorrow, 10 November 2025, at 10:00 a.m., on a petition filed by Member of the Knesset (MK) Ahmad Tibi and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab...

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...

Today, 30 September 2025, the Supreme Court of Israel rejected the petition filed by the family of Mousa Hassouna, who was killed in Lydd (Lod) on 10 May 2021. The petition challenged the Attorney...

On 28 September 2025, the Haifa District Court held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights on behalf of 13 Arab students from Haifa and its surrounding...

Following a hearing, court orders Ministry to assume responsibility for pupils and to communicate directly with parents

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...