A/HRC/10/29 and Israeli organizations condemning practices of the occupying Power and its violations of human rights. It highlighted calls for inquiry into war crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and stated that Israel must comply with its international humanitarian and human rights commitments, which are applicable to the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. It added that the international community must uphold its moral and legal obligations and seek cessation of this occupation. 468. Cuba indicated that, during the review of Israel, almost all delegations raised concerns about the situation of the Palestinian and Syrian Golan occupied territories, in particular regarding the human rights and humanitarian situation. Many recommendations had been made, including by Cuba, in a spirit of cooperation. Cuba stated that Israel must recognize that the concept of democracy was not compatible with the situation of being an occupying Power and negating the human rights of Palestinian people in the occupied territories, and that the review must include the human rights situation in the territories. It noted that a few days after the review, Israel had unleashed military action against the Gaza Strip. Cuba re-emphasized its recommendations and expressed hope that the requests of the international community would be met with a view to achieving fair and lasting peace that would allow to build a better future for the people in the Middle East, guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people to live in a free, independent and sovereign State fully exercising their human rights. 469. The Syrian Arab Republic stated that Israel continued to pursue its violations of the most fundamental principles of humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the occupied Syrian Golan. It highlighted that, while it was presenting its national report to the Working Group, Israel was preparing its attacks on the Gaza Strip, which took place a few days after the review. It said the campaign of disinformation continued at the present session. It noted that Israel claimed not to have executed individuals, but said it had been responsible for the deaths on a daily basis of thousands of men, women and children. Israel had broken the record when it came to violations of international resolutions, especially Council resolutions. 470. Egypt indicated that the review of Israel showed that it chose to ignore its commitments under international human rights and humanitarian law. Its national report ignored that it remains the occupying Power of lands of three Arab countries, that since 1967 more than 20 per cent of the Palestinian population had been detained by Israel and that it was currently engaged in building a wall of racial separation on Palestinian territories. Regarding the Syrian Golan, Egypt stated that Israel continued the confiscation of lands and to impose its citizenship on Syrian people. Egypt repeated some of the obligations that Israel was trying to avoid, in particular that it should end its occupation of all Palestinian and Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan; respect the right of the Palestinians to self-determination and to the establishment of an independent State, with Jerusalem as its capital; respect the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands and to be compensated for losses and damage incurred and to retrieve their properties; annul its illegitimate decision to annex the occupied Syrian Golan; and end all settlement activities in the occupied Arab territories, in particular and around occupied Jerusalem and in the Syrian Golan. 471. The Islamic Republic of Iran stated the universal periodic review could not appropriately address this specific situation, and the gross and systematic human rights violations over 60 years required the particular attention of the international community. It cited human rights and humanitarian violations, such as racist laws and practices, extrajudicial killings, the demolition of houses, the imprisonment of innocent people, racist and discriminatory policies and practices, torture, the expansion of settlements, increasing checkpoints, the closure of crossings and military incursions, the illegal construction of a racist apartheid wall, targeted killings, the use of Palestinians as human shields and heinous GE.09-17451 161