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actions by it designed to change the legal status, geographical nature and
demographic composition of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem,
Gravely concerned in particular about the critical humanitarian and security
situation in the Gaza Strip, including that resulting from the prolonged closures and
severe economic and movement restrictions that in effect amount to a blockade and
the military operations between December 2008 and January 2009, which caused
extensive loss of life and injury, particularly among Palestinian civilians, including
children and women; widespread destruction and damage to Palestinian homes,
properties, vital infrastructure and public institutions, including hospitals, schools
and United Nations facilities; and the internal displacement of civilians, as well as
from the firing of rockets into Israel,
Stressing the need for the full implementation by all parties of Security
Council resolution 1860 (2009) of 8 January 2009 and General Assembly resolution
ES-10/18 of 16 January 2009,
Gravely concerned by reports regarding serious human rights violations and
grave breaches of international humanitarian law committed during the military
operations in the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, including
the findings in the summary by the Secretary-General of the report of the Board of
Inquiry 10 and in the report of the United Nations Fact-finding Mission on the Gaza
Conflict, 11 and reiterating the necessity for serious follow-up by all parties of the
recommendations addressed to them towards ensuring accountability and justice,
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Expressing deep concern about the short- and long-term detrimental impact of
such widespread destruction and the continued impeding of the reconstruction
process by Israel, the occupying Power, on the human rights situation and on the
socio-economic and humanitarian conditions of the Palestinian civilian population,
Expressing deep concern also about the Israeli policy of closures and the
imposition of severe restrictions, checkpoints, several of which have been
transformed into structures akin to permanent border crossings, and a permit regime,
all of which obstruct the freedom of movement of persons and goods, including
medical and humanitarian goods, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem, and about the consequent violation of the human rights of
the Palestinian people and the negative impact on their socio-economic situation,
which remains that of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, while taking note of
recent developments with regard to the situation of access there,
Concerned in particular about the continued establishment of Israeli
checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the
transformation of several of these checkpoints into structures akin to permanent
border crossings inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which are severely
impairing the territorial contiguity of the Territory and undermining efforts and aid
aimed at rehabilitating and developing the Palestinian economy, adversely affecting
other aspects of the socio-economic conditions of the Palestinian people,
Expressing deep concern that thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of
children and women, continue to be held in Israeli prisons or detention centres
under harsh conditions, including, inter alia, unhygienic conditions, lack of proper
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See A/63/855-S/2009/250.
A/HRC/12/48.
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