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worship, education, water, housing, adequate standard of living, property, access to
natural resources and effective remedy are being violated consistently and on a daily
basis.
106. The volume of information received on dispossession, evictions, demolitions and
displacement points to the magnitude of these practices. These are particularly
widespread in certain areas and acute in East Jerusalem.
107. The mission noted that the identities of settlers who are responsible for violence
and intimidation are known to the Israeli authorities, yet these acts continue with
impunity. It is led to the clear conclusion that institutionalized discrimination is
practiced against the Palestinian people when the issue of violence is addressed. The
mission believes that the motivation behind this violence and the intimidation against
the Palestinians and their properties is to drive the local populations away from their
lands and allow the settlements to expand.
108. The mission is gravely concerned at the large number of children who are
apprehended or detained, including for minor offences. They are invariably
mistreated, denied due process and a fair trial. In violation of international law, they
are transferred to detention centres in Israel.
109. Children endure harassment and violence, and encounter significant obstacles
in attending educational institutions, which limits their right to have access to
education. The occupying Power, Israel, is failing in its duty to protect the right of
access to education of the Palestinian children and failing to facilitate the proper
working of educational institutions.
110. Information gathered by the mission showed that some private entities have
enabled, facilitated and profited from the construction and growth of the settlements,
either directly or indirectly.
111. Women alone in their homes, the Bedouins and other vulnerable groups are
easy targets for settler violence, creating a sense of insecurity in Palestinian society in
general.
VI. Recommendations
112. The mission calls upon Israel to, in compliance with article 49 of the Fourth
Geneva Convention, cease all settlement activities without preconditions. In addition it
should immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers from the Occupied
Palestinian Territory. The mission also urges Israel to ensure adequate, effective and
prompt remedy for all Palestinian victims for the harm suffered as a consequence of
human rights violations that are a result of the settlements in accordance with that
State’s international obligation to provide effective remedy. Where necessary, steps
must to be taken to provide such remedy in concurrence with the representatives of
the Palestinian people and the assistance of the international community.
113. The mission calls upon Israel to put an end to the human rights violations that
are linked to the presence of settlements.
114. The mission calls upon Israel 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.
115. The mission urges Israel to put an end to arbitrary arrest and detention of the
Palestinian people, especially children, and to observe the prohibition of the transfer
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