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) have been 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 and the Paris International Donors’
Conference for the Palestinian State, 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 at the continuation by Israel, the occupying
Power, of settlement building and expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including plans to expand and connect Israeli settlements around Occupied East
Jerusalem, thus threatening the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State, in violation
of international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations resolutions,
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,
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