A/HRC/15/52 I. Background 1. In resolution 13/9 on follow-up to the report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a report on the implementation of the resolution at its fifteenth session. The present report is submitted pursuant to this request. II. Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 13/9 2. In operative paragraph 4 of resolution 13/9, the Human Rights Council reiterated its call upon all concerned parties, including United Nations bodies, to ensure the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48), in accordance with their respective mandates. 3. In response to operative paragraph 14 of resolution 13/9, the status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Fact-Finding Mission is comprehensively addressed in the report of the Secretary-General to the fifteenth session of the Council on the progress made in the implementation of the recommendations of the Fact-Finding Mission by all concerned parties, including United Nations bodies, in accordance with paragraph 3 of section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1 (A/HRC/15/51). 4. In operative paragraph 5 of resolution 13/9, the Human Rights Council reiterated the call by the General Assembly upon the Government of Israel to conduct investigations that are independent, credible, and in conformity with international standards into the serious violations of international humanitarian and international human rights law reported by the Fact-Finding Mission, with a view to ensuring accountability and justice. In operative paragraph 6 of resolution 13/9, the Council reiterated the urging by the General Assembly for the conduct by the Palestinian side of investigations that are independent, credible, and in conformity with international standards into the serious violations of international humanitarian and international human rights law reported by the Fact-Finding Mission, with a view to ensuring accountability and justice. 5. The status of implementation of operative paragraphs 5 and 6 of resolution 13/9 is addressed in the report of the committee of independent experts in international humanitarian and human rights law that was established by the Council in operative paragraph 9 of the same resolution (A/HRC/15/50). The committee was mandated to monitor and assess any domestic, legal or other proceedings undertaken by both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian side, in light of General Assembly resolution 64/254, including the independence, effectiveness, genuineness of these investigations and their conformity with international standards. 6. In operative paragraph 7 of resolution 13/9, the Human Rights Council welcomed the recommendation made by the General Assembly to the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depositary of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to reconvene, as soon as possible, a conference of HighContracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to ensure its respect in accordance with common article 1, bearing in mind the statement adopted on 15 July 1999 as well as the reconvening of the conference and the declaration adopted on 5 2