This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Hebrew: עדאלה – המרכז המשפטי לזכויות המיעוט הערבי בישראל, romanized: 'Adalah – HaMerkaz HaMishpati LiZhuyot HaMi'ut Ha'Aravi B'Yisrael; Arabic: عدالة – المركز القانوني لحماية حقوق الأقلية العربية في إسرائيل, romanized: ʿAdāla – al-Markaz al-Qānūnī li-Huqūq al-ʾAqalliyya l-ʿArabiyya fī ʾIsrāʾīl; ʿadāla meaning 'justice' in Arabic) is a human rights organization and legal center.
[6] Adalah's legal department is divided into three units: Land and Planning; Economic, Social, and Cultural; and Civil and Political (including Criminal Justice and the Occupied Palestinian Territory).
[citation needed] In October 2000, Israeli security forces used live ammunition and rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian Arab citizens at demonstrations, killing 13 people.
[citation needed] The Or Commission found that there was no justification whatsoever for the excessive use of lethal forced that caused the deaths of 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Similarly, the Or Commission determined that the firing of rubber-coated steel bullets, which produced fatal results, was also contrary to the internal police.
[citation needed] In December 1997, Adalah represented 12 of the largest unrecognized villages in the Negev "in a demand for the establishment of basic medical clinics", where mothers and children seeking treatment had to travel long distances with no public transportation in order to access a health facility.