A/HRC/34/39 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 April 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 Agenda items 2 and 7 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan* Summary The present report has been prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 31/36 on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan. The report contains information on trends in settlement expansion, land designation for Israeli use in the West Bank and policies and practices pertaining to the Israeli settlement enterprise. It examines the human rights and international humanitarian law violations arising from the continued settlement expansion and land designation policy of Israel, including the implications of the coercive environment affecting Palestinian communities at risk of forcible transfer. The report also provides an analysis of violations relating to the production of and trade in settlement goods. * The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent developments. GE.17-05982(E) 