During the reporting period, IOF killed two members of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 29 Palestinians, including 16 police officers, two women, two children and two resistance activists. They also injured a Palestinian boy and two international human rights defenders in the West Bank.

During the reporting period, IOF extra-judicially executed an activist of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) in the central Gaza Strip. The targeted persons had been subjected to several extra-judicial attempts, the latest of which was during the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which killed his wife and five children. 

On 04 August 2010, IOF killed an activist of the Palestinian resistance, when a drone fired a drone at a number of activists in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. On 30 July 2010, 19 Palestinians (16 police officer, two women and a child) were wounded, when Israeli warplanes bombarded a security site in Gaza City.

During the reporting period, IOF fired at Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip. As a result, 5 workers, including a child, were wounded. During the reporting period, Israeli warplanes bombarded tunnels along the Egyptian border, south of Rafah, and a number of civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.

During the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians in protest to the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, a Palestinian boy and two international human rights defenders were injured. IOF also violently beat a number of demonstrators. IOF also arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, and an Israeli human rights defender. 

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 31 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 28 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children.  Israel had 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.

IOF have continued to take measures at creating a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. On 29 July 2010, at least 40 armed Israeli settlers from "Atirat Kohanim" group stormed a two-storey apartment building belonging to the Qarrash family, in which 9 families counting 49 individuals, including 22 children, live, the majority of whom were outside the building at the time. The settlers, escorted by the Israeli police, broke locks and broke into the building. The family filed a petition at an Israeli court, which ordered the evacuation of settlers. The Israeli police procrastinated in implementing the court ruling, and the settlers were able to appeal against the court ruling, and the court froze the ruling. The Jewish group has claimed ownership of the building since 1987. The family have pursued the case before Israeli courts, Israeli courts recognized the family's ownership of the building in 2000 and in 2008. 

During the reporting period, the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem, rejected a petition filed by a number of Palestinian civilians, who hold identity cards issued by the Palestinian National Authority and live in al-Salam and 'Anata suburbs, north of Jerusalem, against an Israeli decision to expel them from their homes and lands. The court claimed that the presence of more than 60 Palestinian families counting about 500 individuals in the area is illegal since it is a part of Jerusalem, and that they can go to Ramallah as they do not have permission to be in the area. 

Israel has continued its settlement activities in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. On 30 July 2010, dozens of Israeli settlers from "Brakha" settlement, south of Nablus, attacked the eastern outskirts of Bourin village and set fire to large areas of agricultural land planted with olives in al-Juhair and 'Ein al-Sharqiya areas. As a result, at least 100 olive trees were burnt before Palestinian civil defense crews were able to extinguish fire. IOF fired tear gas canisters at Palestinian civilians and civil defense crews. Two civil defense officers suffered from tear gas inhalation.

On 02 August 2010, IOF moved into al-Baq'a area in the east of Hebron. At approximately 07:00, they started to dismantle irrigation networks on 3 fields belonging to Badran Bader Jaber. IOF also confiscated the dismantled networks and many saplings of vegetables. During this operation, Israeli troops violently beat Jaber, his wife, his daughter, his child, 16-year-old Wadee', and his brother-in-law, Mohammed Musbah al-Ja'bari, 37. They arrested the child and the bother-in-law. They beat and arrested the latter before the eyes of his 4-year-old child who was crying begging Israeli soldiers not to beat and arrest his father. Soon after, IOF moved to a nearby field belonging to 'Azzam Mohammed Jaber and dismantled the irrigation network and uproot meters of water pipes used for irrigation, confiscated an agricultural sprinkling machine and damaged hundreds of saplings belonging to Badran Jaber. They also dismantled and confiscated about 5,000 meters of water pipes used for irrigation and some saplings. This attack against Badran Jaber's family had been the fourth in the past 10 months.

Also on 02 August 2010, the Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem approved the construction of 40 housing units in "Pisgat Ze'ev Mizrah" settlement neighborhood. According to Israeli media sources, the Planning and Construction Committee in the municipality approved the construction of 4 buildings, each of which would include 10 housing units, which is part of a wider project that includes the construction of 220 housing units in the area. It is worth noting that the construction of another 32 housing units in the area had been approved two weeks earlier.

According to a report issued by the Israeli Peace Now, the past months witnessed the beginning of construction of 390 settlement buildings in the West Bank, during the period of temporary freezing of settlement activities. This number includes 223 stable units and 167 mobile ones. Thus, the number of housing units being built during the period of temporary freezing of settlement activities has mounted to 603.