A/RES/72/86
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 54
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2017
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/72/448)]
72/86.
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and affirming
the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolution 71/97 of 6 December
2016, as well as those resolutions adopted at its tenth emergency special session,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, including
resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 446 (1979) of 22 March 1979,
465 (1980) of 1 March 1980, 476 (1980) of 30 June 1980, 478 (1980) of 20 August
1980, 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981, 904 (1994) of 18 March 1994 and
2334 (2016) of 23 December 2016,
Reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 1 to the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to the occupied Syrian Golan,
Affirming that the transfer by the occupying Power of parts of its own civilian
population into the territory it occupies constitutes a breach of the Fourth Geneva
Convention 1 and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified in
Additional Protocol I2 to the four Geneva Conventions, 3
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
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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