A/HRC/RES/25/28
continuing demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from the
city, the revocation of Palestinian residency rights in the city and ongoing settlement
activities in the Jordan Valley,
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 at the route of the wall in departure
from the Armistice Line of 1949, which is causing humanitarian hardship and a serious
decline in socioeconomic conditions for the Palestinian people, is fragmenting the territorial
contiguity of the Territory and undermining its viability, and could prejudge future
negotiations and make the two-State solution physically impossible to implement,
Deeply concerned that the wall’s route has been traced in such a way as to include
the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem,
Deploring settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, as well as any activities involving the
confiscation of land, the disruption of the livelihood of protected persons, the forced
displacement of civilians and the de facto annexation of land,
Gravely concerned at the rising number of incidents of violence, destruction,
harassment, provocation and incitement by extremist Israeli settlers in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, against Palestinian civilians, including
children, and their properties, including historic and religious sites, and agricultural lands,
Aware of the detrimental impact of the Israeli settlements on Palestinian and other
Arab natural resources, especially as a result of the confiscation of land and the forced
diversion of water resources, including the destruction of orchards and crops and the
seizure of water wells by Israeli settlers, and of the dire socioeconomic consequences in this
regard,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 22/29 of 22 March 2013, in follow-up
to the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the
implications of Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem,
Recalling also the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,3 which place
responsibilities on all business enterprises to respect human rights by, inter alia, refraining
from contributing to human rights abuses arising from conflict, and urge States to provide
adequate assistance to business enterprises to assess and address the heightened risks of
abuses in conflict-affected areas,
Reaffirming the fact that the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War undertook to
respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances, and that States should
not recognize an unlawful situation arising from breaches of peremptory norms of
international law,
Emphasizing the importance for States to act in accordance with their own national
legislation on promoting compliance with international humanitarian law with regard to
business activities that result in human rights abuses,
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A/HRC/17/31, annex.
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