During the reporting period, IOF killed one Palestinian resistance activist in the Gaza Strip, and wounded 17 others, including a woman, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. On 01 March 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel killed a Palestinian resistance activist, when they fired 4 flechette shells at a number of resistance activists. 

On 26 February 2010, a Palestinian resistance activist was wounded during armed clashes with Israeli troops that had moved into al-Shouka village, southeast of Rafah. On 27 February 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at Palestinian civilian near the border wounding him in the right thigh. 

On 25 February 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were gathering bricks and iron bars from destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported. On 01 March 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired two artillery shells at the northern Gaza Strip. No casualties or damage were reported.

On the same day, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a number of Palestinian civilians and international solidarity activists in the north of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, on 28 February 2010, 6 Palestinian civilians were wounded by Israeli troops in East Jerusalem. 

IOF also used forced against peaceful demonstrations organized in protest of the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded. 

During the reporting period, 4 Palestinian civilians, including one woman, were wounded, when Israeli troops stationed at a checkpoint near Bethlehem fired at a civilian vehicle. 

IOF also used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians in protest of an Israeli decision to declare the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Bilal Ben Rabah Mosque in Bethlehem Jewish heritage sites. A number of civilians were wounded and others were arrested.

Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 18 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  IOF arrested 50 persons, including 10 children and 3 human rights defenders. IOF also harassed Palestinian civilians during house raids. 

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 5 incursions into Palestinian communities, during which they razed 77 donums of agricultural land.

IOF have continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

Gaza Strip

Israel has continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than two and a half years. The illegal Israeli-imposed siege of Gaza, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.  

• 1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education.

• The main concern of 1.5 million people living in the Gaza Strip is to obtain their basic needs of food, medicines, water and electricity supplies.

• Israel had continued to prevent the entry of raw construction materials into the Gaza Strip for over two and a half years.

• Israel has not allowed fuel supplies into the Gaza Strip, excluding limited amounts of cooking gas, since 10 December 2008.

• The Rafah International Crossing Point has been opened for a few days for a number of patients who received medical treatment abroad and needed to return to the Gaza Strip.
  

• Israel has continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to Palestinian civilians wishing to travel to the West Bank and Israeli for medical treatment, trade or social visits.
  

• Israel continues to prevent the entry of spare parts form water networks and sewage systems. Losses incurred to this sector are estimated at US$ 6 million.

• Israel has imposed additional restrictions on access of international diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers to the Gaza Strip. They have prevented representatives of several international humanitarian organizations from entering the Gaza Strip.

• Living conditions of the Palestinian civilian population have seriously deteriorated; levels of poverty and unemployment have sharply mounted.

• Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been deprived for family visitation for more than two years. 

• IOF have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen along the coast of the Gaza Strip.

West Bank

IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians throughout the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be denied access to Jerusalem.

• IOF have established checkpoints in and around Jerusalem, severely restricting Palestinian access to the city. Civilians are frequently prevented from praying at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

• There are approximately 630 permanent roadblocks, manned and unmanned checkpoints across the West Bank. In addition, there are some 60-80 ‘flying’ or temporary checkpoints erected across the West Bank by IOF every week.

• When complete, the illegal Annexation Wall will stretch for 724 kilometers around the West Bank, further isolating the entire population. 350 kilometers of the Wall have already been constructed. Approximately 99% of the Wall has been constructed inside the West Bank itself, further confiscating Palestinian land.

• At least 65% of the main roads that leads to 18 Palestinian communities in the West Bank are closed or fully controlled by IOF (47 out of 72 roads).

• There are around 500 kilometers of restricted roads across the West Bank. In addition, approximately one third of the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, is inaccessible to Palestinians without a permit issued by the IOF. These permits are extremely difficult to obtain.

• IOF continue to harass, and assault demonstrators who hold peaceful protests against the construction of the Annexation Wall.

• Palestinian civilians continue to be harassed by IOF in Jerusalem, and across the West Bank, including being regularly stopped and searched in the streets by IOF.

Annexation Wall

Israel has continued the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank, in violation of international human rights law and humanitarian law. At noon on Tuesday, 02 March 2010, IOF started to raze Palestinian agricultural land on Krimzan Street in Beit Jala in the southern West Bank, to construct a section of the Annexation Wall in the area. According to engineer Samia Zeit from the Municipality of Beit Jala, IOF plan to raze 300 donums of agricultural land belonging to Palestinian civilians from the town, and the new section will surround Palestinian houses in the area from 3 sides.

IOF have continued efforts aimed at creating a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. On 28 February 2010, hundreds of Israeli settlers and their supporters, escorted by Israeli security forces, stormed the yard of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. IOF used excessive force against Palestinian civilians who gathered inside the Mosque and/or attempted to prevent the provocative entry of settlers into the Mosque. 

Also on 28 February 2010, the Israeli District Court ordered the expulsion of Mansour Abu Gharbiya, 44, from Jerusalem for two years. It is worth noting that Abu Gharbiya served 5 months in prison for allegations of participating in public activities. 

On 01 March 2010, a landslide occurred in Wadi Hilaw Street in Silwan, south of the old city of Jerusalem. This landslide had been the fourth of its kind in the same street since the beginning of the year. Palestinian civilians informed the Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem about the hole caused by the landslide, but its officials did not come to the area before the morning of the following day. 

Israel has continued its settlement activities and Israeli settlers living in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. On 24 February 2010, IOF moved into the east of Kufor Dan village, west of Jenin. They destroyed 6 agricultural wells that supply water to at least 456 donums of agricultural and 47 greenhouses.

Following the Friday Prayer on 26 February 2010, dozens of Palestinian civilians gathered in the center of Southern 'Assira village, south of Nablus. They moved towards areas of land that are threatened by confiscation for the sake of settlement expansion. IOF were present. When Palestinian civilians attempted to plant on the land, Israeli troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them. A number of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.