The following is a timeline of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2020.
January
15 January Israel carried out several airstrikes on Gaza, including Jabalia, in response to four rockets fired from the enclave. Two of the rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome air defense system and two landed in uninhabited areas. No injuries were reported on either side.
19 January One farmer, Mahdi Eid Ayyad Irmeilat, 36, and another was injured in two separate explosions near Rafah in southern Gaza. Palestinian sources attributed the explosions to undetonated ordnance dropped by Israeli soldiers.
21 January Three Palestinian youth, Mohammad Hani Abu Mandeel, Salem Zuweid an-Na'ami and Mahmoud Khaled Sa'id from Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza, all 17 or 18-years-old, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the Israel–Gaza barrier in the northern Gaza. According to the Israeli army, the trio had managed to cross the fence and 400 meters into Israeli territory. There they threw either a grenade or an explosive device at Israeli soldiers who killed them.
24 January A mosque in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of East Jerusalem was torched and the walls spray-painted with Hebrew graffiti. Israeli police suspected that it was a price tag attack carried out by extremist settlers from the Kumi Ori outpost in the northern West Bank.
25 January Two Palestinians from As-Sawiya, a father and his son, were attacked by a group of settlers from the settlement Rehelim armed with rocks and an iron rod while working their land. They were hospitalized for their injuries in Nablus.
February 5 February Mohammed al-Haddad, 16 or 17, was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in the Bab al-Zawiya neighborhood in Hebron. IDF spokesperson said al-Haddad hurled a Molotov cocktail at them.
6 February Israeli soldiers with bulldozers entered Jenin in the northern West Bank in order to destroy the home of Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Qunba, who was convicted of killing an Israeli settler in a drive-by shooting in January 2018. Confrontations between the soldiers and the locals erupted. Palestinian snipers fired at the soldiers, causing them to fire at the protestors. Yazan Munther Khaled Abu Tabikh, 19, was shot dead and six other Palestinians sustained injures and were taken to a hospital. One of them in critical condition. A Palestinian Authority policeman, Tariq Ahmad Luay Badwan, 24, was shot in his stomach while inside Jenin's police station. He later succumbed to his wounds. Video evidence appeared to show Badwan standing at the entrance to the station and not posing a threat when he was shot. Israeli Border Police shot and killed Shadi Banna, 45, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, at the gate of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. A Palestinian gunman, Fakhr Abu Ziyad Qarat, 51, shot at Israeli soldiers near Ramallah injuring one in the head. The soldiers fired at the gunman who fled. His body was found on 17 February near Ras Karkar. At least 14 people, most of them Israeli soldiers, were injured in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem. One of them was in serious condition. The driver fled the scene. Hamas hailed the attack as a "practical response" to the Trump peace plan.
7 February Badr Nedal Nafla, 19 or 20, was shot and killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Qaffin northeast of Tulkarem in the West Bank after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at them.
11 February The tires of 170 cars were slashed and anti-Palestinian graffiti was spray-painted on the walls of a mosque in the northern Palestinian town Jish in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the suspected price tag attack.
15 February A nine-year-old Palestinian Boy, Malik Eissa, was shot in the face by Israeli police and lost vision in his left eye after allegedly partaking in riots in East Jerusalem. Residents claim he was on his way home from school.
16 February Israeli warplanes struck targets in Gaza overnight. IDF said the airstrikes were in response to two rockets fired from the enclave which landed in open fields. No injures were reported on either side.
22 February Israeli police shot and killed Maheer Zatara, 33, near the Lions' Gate in East Jerusalem after he allegedly approached an officer with a knife.
23 February
Mohammad Ali Hasan an-Na’em, 27, a member of the Al-Quds Brigades was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers east of Khan Yunis. According to Israeli sources, soldiers observed two Palestinians placing an explosive device near the Israel–Gaza barrier and they, therefore, opened fire at them, killing Mohammad and wounding his accomplice. Bystanders tried to evacuate Mohammad's body, but an Israeli armored vehicle sped towards them, ran over the body, then scooped it up using its plow and swung it in the air. The desecration of the body was caught on video, spread through social media and caused outrage. Aida Touma-Suleiman an Israeli Member of Knesset for the Arab-Israeli party Joint List said that the Israelis "steal a body, abuse it with a bulldozer, and still argue that the army is the most moral in the world." Adalah demanded that the Israeli military immediately open an investigation into the incident. Two more Palestinians were wounded while trying to evacuate the wounded.
24 February Ziad Ahmad Mansour, 23 and Salim Ahmad Salim, 24, two members of the Al-Quds Brigades, were killed by an Israeli air strike in Damascus, Syria.
25 February Settlers slashed tires of at least eight cars in Yasuf south of Nablus.| Settlers sprayed graffiti on cars and walls in Salfit in central the West Bank.
March 11 March Mohammed Hamayel, 15, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israeli settlements in Beita near Nablus in the West Bank and 18 more were injured. One of them was Islam Dweikat, 22, who fell into a coma and was pronounced dead on 1 April.
22 March Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded another Ni'lin, Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. According to PCHR, at approximately 22:00 Israeli soldiers stationed at the entrance of Ni'lin fired at a car driven by Sufian Nawaf 'Abed al-Haleem al-Khawaja, 31, killing him and wounding the passenger, his cousin Mohamed Bader al-Khawaja, 20. The wounded passenger fled and went to a hospital in Ramallah where he was treated. They were according to family members on their way home after having bought foodstuffs for their families. The Israeli military stated that they were throwing stones at Israeli vehicles. PCHR's fieldworker disputed the army's statement claiming that the Palestinians saw an Israeli police vehicle and for fear of being stopped because their car was illegal they turned away. PCHR claimed that the Israeli soldiers opened fire at the vehicle without any justification as they posed no threat or danger to anyone's lives.
27 March The Israeli Air Force struck military facilities in northern Gaza and Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket towards Israel.
April
6 April Israeli airplanes sprayed herbicide on agricultural lands in Gaza near the border fence, damaging crops.
13 April A group of masked Israeli settlers near Metzoke Dragot who had been ordered to self-quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic pepper-sprayed and threw stones at three Palestinian men. They also firebombed two cars.
16 April 'Issa and Musa Qatash from Jalazon refugee camp, Ramallah Governorate were attacked and beaten by settlers. The assault on 'Issa resulted in a fractured bone and two broken front teeth. The settlers also spat at him which forced him into isolation due to fear of the coronavirus spreading.
22 April
Israeli authorities demolished six illegal structures built by settlers near the Yitzhar settlement in the northern West Bank. Ibrahim Muhammad Ali Halasa, 25, from al-Sawahira in the West Bank was shot dead after attempting to ram an Israeli Border Police officer with his van who he then chased after with a knife. The officer sustained minor injuries. A driver in a car with Palestinian license plates hit an Israeli Border Police officer and a civilian near the Ateret settlement. The driver fled the area. A Palestinian, 19, from Tulkarem stabbed an Israeli woman, 62, outside a store in Kfar Saba in Israel. The attacker was then shot by an Israeli civilian.
May 3 May At around 6:45 am three Palestinian men from Dhinnaba, Tulkarm Governorate wanted to cross a gate in the Israeli West Bank barrier. Soldiers were supposed to arrive at 7:00 am and open the gate for them. No soldiers arrived and at 7:30 am the men gave up and decided to instead cross the barrier through a nearby opening. As soon as they did, soldiers lying in ambush opened fire at them with no warning. One of the Palestinians were shot in the leg and taken away by an ambulance.
6 May A Palestinian shepherd, Harbi Mohammed Ali Abdo, was hospitalized and in serious condition after being attacked by a group of about ten settlers while herding his flock near the evacuated settlement Homesh in the northern West Bank.
7 May At around 6:00 am a 39-year-old Palestinian from Tulkarem refugee camp tried to pass through an agricultural gate in the Israeli West Bank barrier near Far'on. He decided not to use his entry permit and instead tried to cross through an opening in the barrier. Soldiers lying in ambush fired on him and injured his right leg.
At 6:30 am two Palestinian, a 15-year-old boy and another youth tried to cross an opening in the barbed wire of the Israeli West Bank barrier to look for temporary work in Israel. While standing on the eastern side overlooking the barrier, a group of soldiers approached them in a jeep. One of them fled but the 15-year-old boy fell. One soldier started to kick him and the other hit him with a rifle butt causing him to blackout. Residents who had witnessed the incident came over and took the boy to a hospital in Tulkarem. There it was found that he had suffered a fractured right arm and abdominal hemorrhaging. He remained in care until he was discharged on 14 May.
10 May At around 7:00 am two Palestinians, one from Tulkarem and the other from Far'a refugee camp tried to cross through an opening in the Israeli West Bank barrier. Israeli soldiers lying in ambush fired at them injuring both in their legs. They were given first aid by the soldiers and then taken to the al-Kafriyat checkpoint by ambulance and then to the Thabet Thabet hospital in Tulkarem.
At around 8:00 am Jewish settlers near Turmus Ayya, Ramallah Governorate harassed two Palestinian tractor drivers, Suliman 'Asfur, 27, and Yusef Muzahem, 38. The settlers tried to prevent them from working their lands according to B'Tselem's report:
One settler tried to pull 'Asfur out of his tractor but slipped and started screaming in pain, pretending he had been run over. Minutes later, the same settler sprayed Muzahem in the face with pepper spray while he was driving. The settler again laid down pretending he had been run over by Muzahem's tractor. A settlement security coordinator seeing the settler laying down threw two stun grenades at the Palestinian tractor drivers. 'Asfur who was arguing with one of the settlers got into his tractor and tried to get away. The security coordinator chased him and pulled his gun, threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop. 'Asfur complied and the security coordinator ordered him to sit on the ground and he then called the Israeli police and military. Border police arrived, handcuffed and blindfolded 'Asfur and took him to the Geva Binyamin police station.
Muzahem who had been pepper-sprayed went to the Geva Binyamin police station to file a report. he waited until 5:00 pm to file his report.
'Asfur was released after ten days in custody after the agricultural committee he was working for paid his bail of 4,000 NIS.
12 May