A/HRC/RES/16/31
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of
Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, and its conclusion that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, were established in breach of international
law,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and other
relevant United Nations resolutions,
Affirming that the Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including in East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law and constitute very serious
violations of the international humanitarian law and of the human rights of the Palestinian
people therein, and undermine international efforts, including the Annapolis Peace
Conference of 27 November 2007 and the Paris International Donors’ Conference for the
Palestinian State of 17 December 2007, aimed at invigorating the peace process and
establishing a viable, contiguous, sovereign and independent Palestinian State by the end of
2008,
Recalling the statement made by the Quartet on 21 September 2010 and its
attachment to the implementation by the parties of their obligations under the Quartet road
map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,1 and noting
specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement activities,
Expressing its grave concern about the continuation by Israel, the occupying Power,
of settlement building and expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in
East Jerusalem, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations
resolutions, including plans to expand and connect Israeli settlements around Occupied East
Jerusalem, thus threatening the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State,
Expressing its concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities undermine the
realization of a two-State solution,
Expressing grave concern about the continuing construction, contrary to
international law, by Israel of the wall inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
in and around East Jerusalem, and expressing its concern in particular about the route of the
wall in departure from the Armistice Line of 1949, which could prejudge future
negotiations and make the two-State solution physically impossible to implement and
which is causing the Palestinian people further humanitarian hardship,
Deeply concerned that the wall’s route has been traced in such a way as to include
the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem,
Expressing its concern at the failure of the Government of Israel to cooperate fully
with relevant United Nations mechanisms, in particular the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,
1.
Welcomes the Council of the European Union conclusions on the Middle East
Peace Process of 8 December 2009, in which the European Union Council of Ministers
reiterated that settlements, the separation barrier where built on occupied land, demolition
of homes and evictions are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace
and threaten to make a two-State solution impossible, and particularly its urgent call upon
the Government of Israel to immediately end all settlement activities, in East Jerusalem and
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S/2003/529, annex.