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During an arrest raid in Nablus city, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man in the head, killing him, and reportedly injured two others after running them over with a military jeep. Three days prior, the army shot and killed another Palestinian man in Beita.

Mohammad Nidal Mousa, 15, was shot and killed by a private Israeli security guard on December 6th, 2021. (Photo: DCIP)

According to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), 15-year-old Mohammad Nidal Younis Mousa from Nablus was shot and killed by a private Israeli security guard in the early hours of Monday morning during an alleged car ramming attack. According to DCIP says Mousa is the 17th Palestinian minor to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem this year.

Recent headlines have only confirmed people’s fears: Israel is monitoring and censoring everything about Palestinian life — both online and in the digital sphere. Mondoweiss speaks with 7amleh’s Nadim Nashif about the launch of the first open source online platform to monitor, document, and follow up on the digital rights violations of Palestinians.

Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives in the northern occupied West Bank town of Beita. (Photo: Akram al-Waara)

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Beita have been struggling to access their land for the olive harvest due to the Israeli military’s continued occupation of Jabal Sabih. “No matter what, we will not leave this land,” Beita resident Ammar Hamayel tells Mondoweiss. “We grew up here, we learned here what it means to be Palestinian and what the land means to us. I will not leave here until my soul leaves my body.”

Six Palestinian human rights activists were targeted by spyware from the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, a new report revealed on Monday, in the first reported instance of Palestinian activists being targeted by the surveillance company. The six activists are all members of the six Palestinian civil society organizations recently branded “terrorist organizations” by Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Israeli settlement near the Palestinian village of Al Maasarah, just south of the West Bank town of Bethlehem on February 19, 2011. (Photo: Najeh Hashlamoun/APA Images)

On Sunday Israel approved plans for 1,300 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, in the first move of its kind since US President Joe Biden took office.  Later this week, the Israel Higher Planning Committee is expected to meet to push forward plans for an additional 2,862 units.