New Yesh Din report: The road to dispossession

Some 100 outposts – illegal Jewish settlement points in the West Bank – have been built to date. In a new Yesh Din report, the settlement of Adei Ad serves as a test case illustrating how the foundation and establishment of an outpost leads the farmers in the nearby villages to lose their ability to…

Palestinian and Israeli organizations condemn lack of accountability for torture of detainees

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), along with Adalah, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, express their outrage at the death of Arafat Jaradat, 30, which, according to the autopsy report of Dr Saber al-‘Aloul, Director of the Palestinian Medico-Legal Institute, was caused by torture and ill-treatment inflicted while…

Supreme Court: MK Zoabi can run for Knesset

Special, nine-judge panel renders on Sunday unanimous ruling overturning Central Election Committee’s decision to disqualify Knesset member from the Arab nationalist Balad party from nearing elections. “The court’s decision proves that the attempts to have me disqualified were the result of political and personal persecution against me, against my party and against the Arab public…