Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem Friday morning, attacking worshipers with rubber bullets, tear gas, and live ammunition, resulting in the injury of over 150 Palestinians, and the arrest of at least 400 more.

Israeli forces killed six Palestinians across the occupied West Bank between Wednesday and Thursday, including at least one minor, bringing the Palestinian death toll since Sunday to ten.

It’s been more than five months since Israel designated six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups, and the groups are demanding that action be taken to reverse the decision. In a joint statement the groups called on third party states, including the US, EU, and intergovernmental organizations to “take concrete action against the Israeli occupation authorities’ continued harassment and criminalization of Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations by calling for full revocation of the designation.”

The Israeli military killed four Palestinians in four separate incidents across the occupied West Bank between Sunday and Monday, including one teenager, and a widow of six children who was unarmed when she was shot.

A month that should be filled with happiness, peace, and devotion has unfortunately, in Palestine, become synonymous with occupation, apartheid, and repression.

Israeli forces injured and arrested dozens of Palestinians over the weekend in occupied East Jerusalem, as Muslims marked the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.  Last year, Israeli police violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem during the holiday was the primary driver of Palestinian protests that swelled into the May 2021 uprisings.

On March 30, Israel’s Supreme Court postponed a critical hearing on the fate of al-Walaja, a Palestinian village along the southern edge of Jerusalem. Praised as a victory by residents, the postponement effectively extends a demolition freeze on 38 homes. But the threat to this ancient agricultural village remains.

A new UN Human Rights Council report is the latest in a series by international and Israeli groups accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid. “There are pitiless features of Israel’s ‘apartness’ rule in the occupied Palestinian territory that were not practiced in southern Africa, such as segregated highways, high walls and extensive checkpoints, a barricaded population, missile strikes and tank shelling of a civilian population, and the abandonment of the Palestinians’ social welfare to the international community,” Michael Lynk’s report said. “With the eyes of the international community wide open, Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.”

Palestinians are reacting to the difference in how the Western media is covering Ukraine from how it covers Palestine. This has been most obvious in two places: the issues of refugees and resistance. “When I see double standards like this I feel that I as a Palestinian don’t exist on this planet,” Sabreen Abu Libdeh, a college lecturer from Ramallah, tells Mondoweiss. 

In response to backlash from pro-Israel groups the Sierra Club has reversed its decision to cancel a series of educational trips to the country.