In the West Bank, IOF used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest of the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities. As a result, dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation or sustained bruises. 

In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian child was wounded when Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip.

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 14 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 8 Palestinian civilians, including two children. IOF also arrested two Palestinian civilians, 4 Israeli human rights defenders and an international one.

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted a limited incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land. 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 three years. The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, 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 only 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 three 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 access restrictions on international diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers seeking to enter 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 three 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, and 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 approximately 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. During the reporting the Jewish District Construction and Development Company in Jerusalem submitted a plan to the Planning and Construction Committee in the Israeli Ministry of Interior, to establish a large elevator to link the Jewish district with al-Nuraq Yard. The elevator would pass by two wells, through which Jewish visitor would be able to reach a 56-meter-ling tunnel that leads to the al-Buraq Yard. The plan includes also public services, large halls, a biblical museum, shops of monuments and public toilettes. 

On Monday and Tuesday, 23 and 24 August 2010, the Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem forced 3 members of the Dabash family to demolish their houses in Sour Baher village, south of Jerusalem, claiming that the houses were built without licenses

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 22 August 2010, dozens of Israeli settlers, escorted by IOF, stormed Joseph Tomb, east of Nablus. They conducted Jewish rituals until 05:00. They then left the area.

On 23 August 2010, Israeli settlers stormed Khirbat al-Hamam area to the north of Tulkarm. They broke into a house belonging to Mohammed al-Jalouli. They held the family inside the house, and at approximately 19:00, they set fire to a 5-donum area of agricultural land near the house.