A/HRC/RES/49/30
Reaffirming the importance of the peace process, which started in Madrid on the basis
of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22
October 1973, and the principle of land for peace, and expressing its concern at the halting
of the peace process in the Middle East and its hope that peace talks will be resumed on the
basis of the full implementation of resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) for the
establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the region,
Reaffirming also the previous relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human
Rights and the Human Rights Council, the most recent being Council resolutions 37/33 of 23
March 2018, 40/21 of 22 March 2019, 43/30 of 22 June 2020 and 46/24 of 24 March 2021,
1.
Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant
resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council,
in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided, inter alia,
that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied
Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that
Israel rescind forthwith its decision;
2.
Deplores the continuing settlement policies and practices in the occupied
Syrian Golan, including the holding of the Israeli cabinet in the occupied Syrian Golan
recently to announce new plans to establish and expand illegal settlements, and to double the
numbers of the settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan within five years, and demands that
Israel, the occupying Power, immediately cease all settlement-related plans and activities in
the occupied Syrian Golan;
3.
Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to cease changing the physical
character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied
Syrian Golan, and emphasizes that the displaced persons of the population of the occupied
Syrian Golan must be allowed to return to their homes and to recover their property;
4.
Also calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli
identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and to desist from its
repressive measures against them and from all other practices that obstruct the enjoyment of
their fundamental rights and their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, some
of which are mentioned in the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied
Territories;2
5.
Further calls upon Israel to allow the Syrian population of the occupied Syrian
Golan to visit their families and relatives in the Syrian motherland through the Quneitra
checkpoint and under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and
to rescind its decision to prohibit these visits, as it is in flagrant violation of the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August
1949and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
6.
Demands that Israel stop its repressive measures against the Syrian citizens in
the occupied Syrian Golan and release immediately the Syrian detainees in Israeli prisons;
7.
Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken
or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, including the Knesset’s decision of 22
November 2010 to hold a referendum before any withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan
and East Jerusalem, that seek to alter the character and legal status of the occupied Syrian
Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and of the Fourth
Geneva Convention, and have no legal effect;
8.
Again calls upon States Members of the United Nations not to recognize any
of the above-mentioned legislative or administrative measures;
9.
Deplores the practices of the Israeli occupation authorities affecting the human
rights of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, including the confiscation of the
private property of Syrians by imposing so-called “Israeli documents” on them, expresses
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Ibid.