A/RES/74/88
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 51
Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian
People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2019
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/74/410)]
74/88.
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and
the need to respect the obligations arising from the Charter and other instruments and
rules of international law,
Reaffirming the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 73/97 and 73/98 of
7 December 2018, 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 Regulations annexed to the Hague
Convention IV of 1907, the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 1 and relevant provisions of customary law,
including those codified in Additional Protocol I 2 to the four Geneva Conventions, 3 to
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19-21900 (E)
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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