A/HRC/19/2
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other
applicable instruments,
Recalling relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human
Rights Council, the Security Council and the General Assembly reaffirming, inter alia, the
illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, including in East Jerusalem,
Mindful that Israel is a party to the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, which is applicable de
jure to Palestinian and all Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including East
Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, and recalling the declaration adopted by the Conference of
High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, held in Geneva on 5 December
2001,
Considering that the transfer by the occupying Power of parts of its own civilian
population into the territory it occupies constitutes a breach of the Fourth Geneva
Convention and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified in
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
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, were established in breach of international
law,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and other
relevant United Nations resolutions,
Affirming that the Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including in East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law and 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 of 27 November 2007 and the Paris International Donors’ Conference for the
Palestinian State of 17 December 2007, aimed at invigorating the peace process and
establishing a viable, contiguous, sovereign and independent Palestinian State by the end of
2008,
Recalling the statement made by the Quartet on 21 September 2010 and its
attachment to the implementation by the parties of their obligations under the Quartet road
map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and noting
specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement activities,
Expressing its grave concern about the continuation by Israel, the occupying Power,
of settlement building and expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in
East Jerusalem, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations
resolutions, including plans to expand and connect Israeli settlements around Occupied East
Jerusalem, thus threatening the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State,
Expressing its concern that continuing Israeli settlement activity undermines the
realization of a two-State solution,
Expressing grave concern about 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 impossible to implement and which is causing
the Palestinian people further humanitarian hardship,
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