During the reporting period, IOF killed a member of the Palestinian resistance and one civilian in the Gaza Strip, and wounded two civilians, including a child, in the West Bank. On 16 April 2010, a member of the Palestinian resistance was killed in the Gaza Strip during armed clashes with Israeli troops that moved into al-Shoja'eya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. 

On 20 April 2010, a Palestinian worker was wounded when Israeli troops fired at a number of workers who were collecting bricks and construction aggregate in the northern Gaza Strip.On 20 April 2010, Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.

On the same day, IOF fired at a number of Palestinian civilians and international solidarity activists who organized a peaceful protest against the establishment of a buffer zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. No casualties were reported.

In the West Bank, two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded by IOF in al-Far'a refugee camp, south of Tubas, and in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.

IOF also used excessive force against peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders against the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. 

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 15 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children. In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one limited incursion into the east of al-Shoja'eya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. 

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 had continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than two and a half years. The 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.  

• On Friday, 01 January 2010, IOF decided to close Nahal Ouz crossing permanently, and to allow the entry of fuels through Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, southeast of Rafah, claiming security reasons. 

• 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 the population of the Gaza Strip is to obtain their basic needs of food, medicines, water and electricity supplies.

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

• Israel has not allowed fuel supplies into the Gaza Strip, excluding limited amounts of cooking gas and energy fuel for Gaza Power Plant, 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 home to the Gaza Strip.

• Israel had 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 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 mounted sharply.

• At least 800 Gazan prisoners in Israeli jails have been deprived of family visitation for more than two and a half 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 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 lead 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.

• During the reporting period, Israeli troop stationed at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 8 Palestinian civilians, including a child and a woman.

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 15 April 2010, IOF delivered notices to a number of Palestinian families in the Tal al-Rumaida neighborhood in central Hebron, announcing the seizure of 5 tracts of land near their houses, supposedly out of security considerations. The area of land, a total of 7 donums, belongs to the heirs of Mahmoud Khamis al-Saheb. 

On 16 April 2010, Israeli settlers burnt two cars belonging to Palestinian civilians in Jainsafout village, east of Qalqilya. On Wednesday, 21 April 2010, a number of Israeli settlers from "Ariel" settlement near Salfit threw stones at Palestinian civilian vehicles near Kufor Hares village, north of Salfit. No injuries were reported.