During the reporting period, IOF killed 5 Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and wounded 10 civilians, including an old woman, a child and two journalists, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the Gaza Strip, IOF killed 5 militants in two separate attacks near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel on 01 June 2010.

On 27 May 2010, two Palestinian civilians were wounded when IOF fired artillery shells at the east of Gaza City. On 01 June 2010, an old woman was wounded when IOF fired an artillery shell at the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. On 02 June 2010, a Palestinian worker was wounded when IOF fired at workers who were collecting bricks and iron bars from the debris of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip.

During the reporting period, IOF bombarded and destroyed a workshop in Gaza City and some buildings in Gaza International Airport. In the West Bank, 6 civilians, including a child and two journalists (one of whom is American), were wounded when IOF used forced to disperse peaceful demonstration organized in protest to the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities.  

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 9 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  IOF arrested 12 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children.  They also harassed two Palestinian families in Hebron and Jerusalem.   

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one incursion into the east of Khan Yunis, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land which they had already razed.  

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

IOF have continued to close all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than two years. The Israeli 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 the Nahal Oz crossing permanently and to allow the entry of fuels through Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, southeast of Rafah, citing 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 primary concern of the population of the Gaza Strip is to obtain their basic needs of food, medicines, water and electricity supplies.
• Israel has continuously prevented 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 marginal amounts of cooking gas and industrial fuel for Gaza Power Plant, since 10 December 2008.

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

• Israel has continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing for 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 as levels of poverty and unemployment have sharply mounted.

• At least 800 Palestinians prisoners from Gaza held in Israeli jails have been deprived of family visitation for more than two years. 

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

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 permanent 630 roadblocks, manned and unmanned checkpoints across the West Bank. In addition, there are approximately 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 has 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.

• IOF continues to harass Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank, including regularly stopping and search Palestinian civilians in the street.

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

IOF have continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers living in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

On 28 May 2010, Israeli settlers from "Beit Jonathan" settlement outpost in Silwan village, to the south of the old city of Jerusalem, harassed a number of Palestinian woman. Immediately, clashes erupted between Palestinian civilians and Israeli settlers. IOF intervened and attacked 'Essam Da'na, 48, and Riaham Ussama al-Rjabi, 20, who is pregnant and miscarried as a result. A number of women present also suffered from tear gas inhalation.

On the same day, one Israeli settler from a group of settlers at the intersection of "Karni Shmoron" settlement near Qalqilya-Nablus road, east of Qalqilya, threw a large stone from a close distance at a Palestinian civilian vehicle that was traveling to Qalqilya. The stone broke the back window of the vehicle, and 4 civilians were injured.

On 29 May 2010, guards of "Beit Jonathan" settlement outpost in Silwan village, to the south of the old city of Jerusalem, attacked a group of Palestinian children who were playing. Palestinian civilians gathered to protect their children. Immediately, IOF arrived at the area and violently beat Noura al-Rajabi and Mohammed and Ahmed Gazzawi.