During the reporting period, a Palestinian child was killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank and an elderly man was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, 3 civilians were wounded by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 

In the West Bank, on Thursday evening, 13 May 2010, a Palestinian child was killed by an Israeli settler near Ramallah. The boy and 3 of his friends had thrown stones at an Israeli settler's car traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road. The settler stepped out of the car and fired at the children, killing one of them. 

During the reporting period, IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest against the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities. Two Palestinian civilians were wounded, and others sustained bruises or suffered from tear gas inhalation.

In the Gaza Strip, on 14 May 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, to the east of Jabalya town, shot dead an elderly Palestinian man when he approached the border.  After the man had left his house in morning and did not return, his family began looking for him. On the following day, his family was informed that his body had been found near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Jabalya town. According to the victim's son, his father did not suffer from any mental or psychological disorder. He assumed that his father had gone to the eastern cemetery, 500 meters from the border, to visit his grandfather's grave. He not know why exactly his father got so close to the border. 

On 15 May 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, to the east of the Bedouin Village, opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were gathering bricks and construction aggregate from the site of the former Israeli settlements of "Elli Sinai" and "Nissanit." As a result, one worker was wounded.

On 18 May 2010, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians and international solidarity activists against the establishment of a restricted buffer zone along the northern and eastern border of the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 8 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including a child. They also arrested 12 civilians, including 10 human rights defenders and a journalist, during peaceful demonstrations against the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities. 

During the reporting period, Israeli troops stationed in the center and south of Hebron stormed and searched the office of municipal inspectors in al-Gazzazin area in the old city of Hebron. They confiscated the keys to the office and forced its staff out. Municipal inspectors are unarmed police officers in charge of maintaining public order. 

Israel has 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 over 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.  

• 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.

Israel has continued to take measures at creating a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. On 13 May 2010, IOF stormed a tent set up by the Salah family in Beit Safafa village. IOF had forced the 50-member family to evacuate their homes in the area, purportedly in implementation of an Israeli court ruling in favor of Israeli settlers. They dismantled the tent, claiming that it was set up without permission from the Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem.