A/HRC/28/43 fact-finding mission report. OHCHR also requested the Government of the State of Palestine to present relevant information concerning the status of the same recommendations. At the time of the preparation of the present report, no information had been received from either the Permanent Mission of Israel or the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine. Cuba 26. The Permanent Mission of Cuba submitted a note verbale dated 10 November 2014. Cuba noted with grave concern that, despite repeated appeals from the international community for Israel to completely halt all illegal settlement activities and violence, and to stop and reverse the construction of the wall, among other illegal policies and practices, Israel continued to colonize the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan. Cuba stated that, in doing so, Israel displaced Palestinian civilians, imposed collective punishment on the people and violated international law. 27. Cuba reiterated the fundamental principle that acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible under international law and the Charter of the United Nations. It noted that the continued Israeli military occupation of the Syrian Golan since 1967 was unacceptable. 28. Cuba condemned settlement policies enacted by the Government of Israel in the occupied Syrian Golan, with disregard for international law, international conventions, the Charter and the resolutions of the United Nations. Cuba specifically referenced General Assembly resolution 68/17, which highlighted the illegality of construction of settlements and other Israeli activities in the occupied Syrian Golan, and General Assembly resolution 68/84, which calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and, in particular, to desist from the establishment of settlements. 29. Regarding the construction of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, Cuba stated that this was in flagrant violation of international law and an obvious challenge to United Nations resolutions and the July 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. 30. Cuba demanded an immediate end to the construction and expansion of settlements and the Wall; transfer of settlers; house demolitions; intensification of land confiscations; evictions; excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, including its religious sites and surroundings; displacement of Palestinian civilians; imposition of arbitrary and racist residency and movement restrictions on Palestinians; and all other measures to depopulate the city of its Palestinian inhabitants and achieve the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem to Israel. 31. Cuba stated that, since the negotiations resumed in 2013, 31 Israel has announced plans to build more than 13,000 [settler] homes, in addition to the ongoing construction of thousands more throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in East Jerusalem and its surrounding area. In this context, Cuba noted that, in 2013, at least 200 Palestinian homes were demolished, forcibly displacing hundreds of people. Cuba also stressed that the continued construction of the wall isolates entire communities and hinders the formation of a Palestinian state. 32. Cuba stated that, in the nine months of negotiations, more than 60 Palestinians, including children, were killed by the occupation forces, and that, in the same period, over four thousand Palestinians, including children, joined thousands of Palestinian prisoners 31 8 The referenced round of negotiations ended in April 2014.