A/HRC/RES/43/32
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other
occupied Arab territories
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 June 2020
43/32.
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and all relevant conventions, and affirming that these human rights instruments,
among others, are applicable to and must be respected in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem,
Recalling also relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Taking note of the recent report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,1 and other relevant recent reports of
the Human Rights Council,
Stressing the urgent need for efforts to reverse the negative trends on the ground and
to restore a political horizon for advancing and accelerating meaningful negotiations aimed
at the achievement of a peace agreement that will bring a complete end to the Israeli
occupation that began in 1967 and the resolution of all core final status issues, without
exception, leading to a peaceful, just, lasting and comprehensive solution of the question of
Palestine, on the basis of international law,
Noting the accession by the State of Palestine to several human rights treaties and the
core humanitarian law conventions, and its accession on 2 January 2015 to the Rome Statute
of the International Criminal Court,
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of
Justice, and recalling also General Assembly resolutions ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and ES10/17 of 15 December 2006,
Noting in particular the Court’s reply, including that the construction of the wall being
built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and
around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime are contrary to international law,
1
A/74/507.
GE.20-08895(E)