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Adalah and Meezaan Center condemn the state’s arbitrary use of administrative detention against Palestinian citizens of Israel as politically motivated persecution

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Yesterday, 30 April 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of Mohammad Ahmad al-Halaseh, a Palestinian citizen of...

Haifa Magistrates’ Court convicts community leaders Attorney Ahmad Khalifa and Mohammad Taher Jabareen of “indirect incitement to terrorism” and “identification with a terrorist...

Ahmad Erekat, a 26-year old Palestinian man, was shot and killed by Israeli Border Police, but his family still cannot bury him. The Court previously allowed his body to be withheld as a bargaining...

Israel continues to withhold hundreds of bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for future negotiations. Adalah is continuously challenging this inhumane policy. Today, Adalah petitioned on...

Yesterday, 12 April 2026, the Israeli Supreme Court overturned National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s policy that severely restricted visits of Knesset Members (MKs) to Palestinian...

Following decades of state neglect that has left Arab municipalities with only 37 of Israel’s 11,775 public shelters, Adalah demands the immediate distribution of newly funded shelters to prevent...

Last night, 30 March 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the...

UPDATE (20 April 2026) Petition withdrawn following ceasefire agreement. On 20 April 2026, Adalah, the Mossawa Center, and fellow NGO I’lam withdrew their joint petition against the Haifa...

On 12 March 2026, the National Disciplinary Tribunal of the Israel Bar Association (IBA) officially deleted the appeal of Palestinian Attorney Maha Ighbaria, after she chose to withdraw it...

Adalah, the Follow-Up Committee on Arab Education, and the National Committee of Arab Parents in Israel demand the publication of a clear, official position and the immediate approval of a national...

The petition—filed on behalf of affected students, Palestinian universities, Members of Knesset, and local representative bodies—argues that the law is unconstitutional, rooted in racist...

On 16 February 2026, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter to Defense Minister Israel Katz, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and Minister...

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement sent an urgent letter to Israeli officials — the Minister of Defense,...

Today, 10 February 2026, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has signed deportation orders against two Palestinian citizens of Israel. This marks the first time that the 2023 Law to...

The Arab Bedouin village of Husseiniya, located in northern Israel, south of Karmiel within the jurisdiction of the Misgav Regional Council, has faced severe and prolonged planning neglect despite...

A mass protest in Sakhnin on 22 January 2026, attended by tens of thousands of participants, proceeded along its originally planned route to the Misgav Police Station junction following urgent...