Zionist watchdog groups like Honest Reporting have launched smear campaigns to silence the voices of Palestinian journalists, often causing many of them to lose their jobs. Media organizations have to ask themselves: will they continue to allow such groups to dictate their journalism, or will they dare to be as fearless as the Palestinian journalists they claim to support?

Israel arrested Jenin Freedom Theatre chairman Bilal Al-Saadi last month and sentenced him to six months detention on undisclosed charges as part of a crackdown on Palestinians’ artistic freedom. PEN America and an international group of theater community members have condemned the arrest. They are demanding Al-Saadi’s release.

An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect at 11:30pm local time (20:30 GMT). Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced the ceasefire in a statement, adding that they have a right to “respond to any Zionist aggression.”

Mondoweiss correspondent in Gaza Tareq Hajjaj reported that Israeli airstrikes were ongoing in the last hour leading up to the ceasefire.

The Gaza Health Ministry reports that 43 Palestinians, including 15 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel began airstrikes on the besieged strip on Friday.

Israeli police forces in occupied East Jerusalem attacked the funeral of slain Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, on Friday afternoon, beating funeral goers and firing sound grenades into the procession. 

A review of Mondoweiss’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine over the last 19 months.

While the omicron variant of the coronavirus spread to 57 countries this week, Palestinians announced that so far, “Palestine is free of any infection with the new mutation.”

Palestinians have reimposed a state of emergency in an attempt to prevent the spread of the omicron variant.

Yumna Patel speaks with Palestinian farmers working to bring in their olive crop as the harvest season winds down, and captures some of the sounds of the olive harvest.

“As perceived by the children, economic conditions had the most influence on their ability to stay in school,” a new report from Al Mezan says.

Palestinian health officials expanded their vaccination drive on Thursday and approved shots for children age 12 and up. The previous regulations limited shots to children age 16 and older.