A/HRC/43/67 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 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 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 40/24, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an update on the implementation of resolution 40/24 from 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2019. She describes the expansion of the settlement activities of Israel and its negative impact on the human rights of Palestinians. The report focuses on the developments that have exacerbated the prevailing coercive environment in parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the extent that it may have led to forcible transfer. The High Commissioner also addresses issues relating to Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan. * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.20-01421(E) 