A/HRC/10/29
Convention and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified in
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of
Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, and its conclusion that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, were established in breach of international
law,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004,
Affirming that the Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
constitute very serious violations of international humanitarian law and of the human rights
of the Palestinian people therein and undermine international efforts, including the
Annapolis Peace Conference of 27 November 2007 and the Paris International Donors’
Conference for the Palestinian State of 17 December 2007, aimed at invigorating the peace
process and establishing a viable, contiguous, sovereign and independent Palestinian State
by the end of 2008,
Recalling its attachment to the implementation by both parties of their obligations
under the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict (S/2003/529, annex), and noting specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement
activity,
Expressing its grave concern about the continuation by Israel, the occupying Power,
of settlements building and expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in violation of
international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations resolutions, including plans to
expand and connect Israeli settlements around occupied East Jerusalem, thus threatening
the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State,
Expressing its concern that continuing Israeli settlement activity undermines the
realization of a two-State solution,
Expressing grave concern at the continuing construction, contrary to international
law, by Israel of the wall inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around
East Jerusalem, and expressing its concern in particular about the route of the wall in
departure from the Armistice Line of 1949, which could prejudge future negotiations and
make the two-State solution physically impossible to implement and which is causing the
Palestinian people further humanitarian hardship,
Deeply concerned that the route of the wall has been traced in such a way as to
include the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem,
Expressing its concern at the failure of the Government of Israel to cooperate fully
with the relevant United Nations mechanisms, in particular the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (A/HRC/10/20), and calls upon the
Government of Israel to cooperate with all relevant special rapporteurs in accordance with
Council resolution S-9/1 to allow them to discharge their mandates fully;
2.
Deplores the recent Israeli announcements of the construction of new
housing units for Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in and
around occupied East Jerusalem, as they undermine the peace process and the creation of a
contiguous, sovereign and independent Palestinian State and are in violation of
international law and Israeli pledges at the Annapolis Peace Conference;
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