In the West Bank, 7 civilians, including a photojournalist and an international human rights defender, were injured, when IOF used excessive force to

During the reporting period, 8 Palestinian civilian and an international human rights defender were wounded by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.  

In the Gaza Strip, two Palestinian workers were wounded when IOF fired at a number of workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip.

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 37 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children. IOF also arrested 4 paramedics and two human rights defenders, but released them an hour later. 

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one limited incursion into al-Boreij refugee camp. They clashed with members of the Palestinian resistance. During the clashes 3 resistance activists were lightly wounded.

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. 

On 26 August 2010, Israeli settlers attempted to break into al-'Ein Mosque in Silwan villahe in East Jerusalem. According to eyewitnesses, at least 10 Israeli settlers attempted to break into al-'Ein Mosque in Wadi Hilwa quarter in Silwan village. The settlers were seen at approximately 03:30 sneaking into the area carrying tools to open the gate of the mosque. Palestinian civilians noticed the attempt and confronted it. Immediately, IOF arrived at the area to protect the settlers. Five hours earlier, the settlers attempted to the attack the mosque, and in the beginning of this month, Israeli settlers broke the gate of the mosque.  On 30 August 2010, IOF moved into Wad Hilwa quarter in Silwan village. They waged an arrest campaign against Palestinian civilians. 

The Israeli Jihon Water Company has recently sent warnings to churches and nunneries in the old town of Jerusalem demanding them to pay bills of water consumption accumulated since 1967, and threatening to cut off water supplies if due fees were not paid. It is worth noting that churches and nunneries in Jerusalem had been exempted from paying fees for water supplies over hundreds of years.

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 27 August 2010, Israeli settlers attacked Jamal, Ahmed and Mohammed al-Nawaj'a, while they were grazing animals in Sousia area, nearly 800 meters away from "Sousia" settlement, south of Hebron. The settlers used stones and canes in the attack. 

On 31 August 2010, a number of Israeli settlers from "Emanuel" settlement, northwest of Salfit, attacked 3 Palestinian civilians who were working on a tract of agricultural land near Deir Estia village, northwest of Salfit. 

Following an attack against Israeli settlers near Hebron on 31 August 2010, Israeli settlers launched a series of attacks against Palestinian civilians and property in the West Bank.