A/HRC/28/46 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 25/31, in which the Council called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council. The Council recalled in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which it decided, inter alia, that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision. 2. In resolution 25/31, the Human Rights Council also requested the Secretary-General to bring the resolution to the attention of all Governments, the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, to disseminate it as widely as possible and to report thereon to the Council at its twenty-eighth session. II. Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 25/31 3. On 3 September 2014, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on behalf of the Secretary-General, addressed a note verbale to the Government of Israel referring to Human Rights Council resolution 25/31 and requesting information on any steps taken or envisaged to be taken concerning the implementation of the said resolution. No reply was received. 4. On the same day, OHCHR, on behalf of the Secretary-General, addressed a note verbale to all permanent missions in Geneva to draw their attention to Human Rights Council resolution 25/31 and to request the Governments of Member States to provide information on any steps taken or envisaged to be taken concerning the implementation of the relevant provisions of the resolution. The permanent missions of the Syrian Arab Republic, Cuba and Denmark responded by means of notes verbales to that request. 5. In addition, on behalf of the Secretary-General, OHCHR, pursuant to the request of the Human Rights Council, brought resolution 25/31 to the attention of the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations. No reply was received. 6. In a note verbale dated 16 October 2014, the Syrian Arab Republic referred to the “continuing illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan by Israel”. According to the Syrian Arab Republic, Israel continued to build illegal settlements, confiscate land owned by Syrian citizens, prevent the reunification of Syrian families and illegally explore and exploit natural resources, including water, gas and oil resources by Israeli and foreign-owned companies such as Genie Energy, as well as its ill-treatment of Syrian prisoners illegally held in Israeli jails. 7. According to the Syrian Arab Republic, the Israeli occupying authority in the occupied Syrian Golan, represented by the Israel Land Administration, did not allow the issuance of building permits for Syrian citizens in the village of Masa’da to build homes on their ancestral properties, but also confiscated parts of this land. In addition, the Syrian Arab Republic stated that the Israeli occupying authority continued to harass owners of the land comprising collectively owned plots of 354 dunums legally registered by the relevant Syrian authorities in 1946. The Syrian Arab Republic stated that the Israeli occupying authority had brought illegally more than 90 Syrian citizens to court in the occupied Syrian Golan under the pretext that they had not received proper building permits, which the Israeli authorities refused to grant. 2