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Condemning all targeting of civilians and stressing the urgent need to ensure
accountability for all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian
law to prevent further violations;
1.
Condemns the non-cooperation by the occupying Power, Israel, with the
independent international fact-finding mission;
2.
Welcomes the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission
(A/HRC/12/48);
3.
Endorses the recommendations contained in the report of the Independent
International Fact-Finding Mission, and calls upon all concerned parties including United
Nations bodies, to ensure their implementation in accordance with their respective mandates;
4.
Recommends that the General Assembly consider the report of the Independent
International Fact-Finding Mission, during the main part of its sixty-fourth session;
5.
Requests the United Nations Secretary-General to submit to the Council, at its
thirteenth session, a report on the status of implementation of paragraph 3. above;
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The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that international human rights law and international humanitarian law are
complementary and mutually reinforcing,
Recalling the obligations of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva
Convention, and reaffirming that each High Contracting Party to the Fourth Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War is under the obligation to respect
and ensure the respect for the obligations arising from that Convention,
Stressing that the right to life constitutes the most fundamental of all human rights,
Recognizing that the siege by Israel imposed on the occupied Gaza Strip, including its
closure of border crossings and the cutting of the supply of fuel, food and medicine, constitutes
collective punishment of Palestinian civilians and leads to disastrous humanitarian and
environmental consequences,
1.
Welcomes the first periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the implementation of the Human Rights Council resolution S9/1(A/HRC/12/37);
2.
Endorses the recommendations contained in the first periodic report of the High
Commissioner, and calls upon all concerned parties including United Nations bodies to ensure
their implementation in accordance with their respective mandates;
3.
Requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit to the Council, at its
thirteenth session, a report on the status of implementation of this resolution;
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