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penal sanctions, grave breaches and the responsibilities of the High Contracting Parties,
including by ensuring that they do not become involved in internationally unlawful conduct;
11.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
strengthen the field presence of the Office of the High Commissioner in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, and to deploy the personnel
and expertise necessary to monitor and document the ongoing violations of international
law in the context of large-scale civilian protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in accordance with the findings of the independent
international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to
follow up on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the
commission of inquiry and to provide the Human Rights Council with an oral update at its
forty-second session, and to present a report to the Council at its forty-third session, to be
followed by an interactive dialogue;
12.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
53rd meeting
22 March 2019
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 23 to 8, with 15 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Afghanistan, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chile, China,
Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia
Against:
Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechia, Fiji, Hungary, Ukraine
Abstaining:
Argentina, Bahamas, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark,
Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Rwanda, Slovakia, Togo, United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uruguay]
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