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the blockade on Gaza in accordance with international human rights law and Security
Council resolution 1860 (2009), and allow movement between Gaza and the West
Bank. Israel should also remove physical restrictions on free movement throughout
the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and ensure that all relevant administrative
rules and requirements are consistent with international human rights and
humanitarian law.
82.
The right to education must be respected and protected, including by
facilitating free, safe and unhindered access to schools. The blanket ban on students
from Gaza to access education in the West Bank must be lifted.
83.
Steps should be taken immediately to remove barriers to freedom of movement
that prevent medical personnel from carrying out their duties. All unnecessary or
disproportionate barriers hampering Palestinians’ access to medical treatment must
be lifted without delay, including in Israel and East Jerusalem.
84.
Steps must be taken to ease the restrictions on economic development in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including by immediately allowing greater freedom of
movement of goods and people, and lifting restrictions that prevent Palestinians from
accessing land and developing their economy.
85.
Israeli authorities must recognize and respect the residency rights of
Palestinians, including by immediately halting the practice of revoking residence
permits, ending the freeze on changes to addresses, removing any quotas on family
reunification requests, and processing backlogged requests and new requests
expeditiously.
B.
Recommendations to the Palestinian authorities
86.
The Palestinian authorities must implement their obligations under
international human rights treaties, including with regard to freedom of movement.
87.
The Palestinian authorities should take steps to encourage national political
parties to resolve the political disunity that obstructs the equal implementation of the
human rights obligations of the Government of the State of Palestine throughout the
Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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