A/HRC/28/43 I. Background 1. In its resolution 25/28 on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a report to the Council at its twenty-eighth session, detailing the implementation of the recommendations contained in 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 (A/HRC/22/63). 2. The present report, submitted pursuant to resolution 25/28, contains the information requested and received from States to which the fact-finding mission addressed recommendations, as well as information gathered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The present report contains information up until 25 November 2014 and follows the report on the same subject matter which included information up until November 2013 and was presented at the twenty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/25/39). It should be read in conjunction with the report of the Secretary-General to the twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan (A/HRC/28/44) and recent reports of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 1 II. Overview of the recommendations of the fact-finding mission 3. In its report, the fact-finding mission made six recommendations, of which four were addressed to the State of Israel. Basing itself on article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the mission called upon Israel to cease all settlement activities without preconditions; to immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory; and to ensure adequate, effective and prompt remedy for all Palestinian victims for the harm suffered as a consequence of human rights violations that were a result of the settlements, in accordance with its international obligation to provide effective remedy. The mission noted that, where necessary, steps should be taken to provide such remedy in concurrence with the representatives of the Palestinian people and the assistance of the international community (para. 112). 4. In addition, the fact-finding mission called upon Israel to put an end to the human rights violations linked to the presence of settlements, and to ensure full accountability for all violations, including for all acts of settler violence, in a non-discriminatory manner, and to put an end to the policy of impunity. It furthermore urged Israel to put an end to arbitrary arrests and detention of Palestinians, especially children, and to observe the prohibition of the transfer of prisoners from the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the territory of Israel, in accordance with article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (paras. 113–115). 5. In its report, the fact-finding mission called upon all Member States to comply with their obligations under international law and to assume their responsibilities in their relations with a State breaching peremptory norms of international law, and specifically not to recognize an unlawful situation resulting from Israel’s violations (para. 116). 6. Lastly, the fact-finding mission stated that private companies must assess the human rights impact of their activities and take all necessary steps — including by terminating 1 2 Including A/HRC/28/45, A/HRC/28/80 and Add.1, A/69/348 and A/69/347.