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unlawful presence in the territory, and to take steps, consistent with their obligations under
international law, to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of
the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
(b)
To implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in
relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to take
appropriate steps to prevent, investigate, punish and redress human rights abuses by
businesses domiciled in their territory and/or under their jurisdiction, including those owned
or controlled by them, through effective policies, legislation, regulations and adjudication in
order to ensure that those businesses refrain from committing, contributing to, enabling or
benefiting from the human rights abuses of Palestinians, in accordance with the expected
standard of conduct in the Guiding Principles and relevant international laws and standards,
by taking appropriate steps in view of the immitigable nature of the adverse impact of their
activities on human rights, including suspension of their operations in the context of the
settlements;
(c)
To provide guidance to individuals and businesses on the financial,
reputational and legal risks, including the possibility of liability for corporate involvement in
gross human rights abuses and the abuses of the rights of individuals, of becoming involved
in settlement-related activities, including through financial transactions, including foreign
direct investments, purchases, the importation of settlement products, the exportation of
products and services to settlements, procurements, loans, the provision of services and other
economic and financial activities in or benefiting Israeli settlements, from within their
countries, to prevent those financial transactions, to inform businesses of those risks in the
formulation of their national action plans for the implementation of the Guiding Principles
on Business and Human Rights, and to ensure that their policies, legislation, regulations and
enforcement measures effectively address the heightened risks of operating a business in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
(d)
To increase monitoring of settler violence with a view to promoting
accountability, and to implement targeted individual sanctions, including travel bans and
asset freezes, against individuals identified as perpetrators of violations of international
human rights law or international humanitarian law;
11.
Calls upon business enterprises to take all measures necessary to comply with
their responsibilities under the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and
relevant international laws and standards, foremost by terminating their activities in or in
relation to the Israeli settlements and the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, to withdraw from settlements in order to cease the immitigable adverse
impact of their activities on human rights, and to cease contributing to the establishment,
maintenance, development or consolidation of Israeli settlements or the exploitation of the
natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
12.
Calls upon relevant United Nations bodies to take all measures and actions
within their mandates necessary to ensure full respect for and compliance with Human Rights
Council resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011 on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights and other relevant international laws and standards, and to ensure the implementation
of the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, which provides a global
standard for upholding human rights in relation to business activities that are connected with
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
13.
Reiterates its request to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry
on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, as mandated by
the Human Rights Council in its resolution 55/32 of 5 April 2024, to prepare a report on the
identities of settlers, as well as settler groups and their members, that have engaged in or
continue to engage in acts of violence, intimidation, harassment or terror against Palestinian
civilians and the actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, and by third States to ensure
accountability for violations or abuses of international law in this regard, and requests,
instead, that the report be submitted to the Council at its sixty-first session;
14.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to report
on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution to the Human Rights
Council at its sixty-first session;
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