A/HRC/RES/37/36
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 Occupied Palestinian
Territory, and recalling also General Assembly resolutions ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and
ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
Noting that the International Court of Justice concluded, inter alia, that the Israeli
settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, had been
established in breach of international law,
Taking note of the recent relevant reports of the Secretary-General, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Committee to
Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and
Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories and the treaty bodies monitoring compliance with
the human rights treaties to which Israel is a party, and the recent reports of the Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since
1967,
Recalling the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to
investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social
and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem,1
Expressing its grave concern at any action taken by any body, governmental or nongovernmental, in violation of the Security Council and General Assembly resolutions
relevant to Jerusalem,
Noting that Israel has been planning, implementing, supporting and encouraging the
establishment and expansion of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem, since 1967, through, inter alia, the granting of benefits and incentives to
settlements and settlers,
Recalling the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and emphasizing specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement
activity, including so-called natural growth, and the dismantlement of all settlement
outposts erected since March 2001, and the need for Israel to uphold its obligations and
commitments in this regard,
Taking note of General Assembly resolution 67/19 of 29 November 2012, by which,
inter alia, Palestine was accorded the status of non-member observer State in the United
Nations, and also of the follow-up report thereon of the Secretary-General,2
Aware that Israeli settlement activities involve, inter alia, the transfer of nationals of
the occupying Power into the occupied territories, the confiscation of land, the destruction
of property, including homes and projects funded by the international community, the
forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians, including Bedouin families, the exploitation
of natural resources, the conduct of economic activity for the benefit of the occupying
Power, disruption to the livelihood of protected persons, the de facto annexation of land and
other actions against the Palestinian civilian population and the civilian population in the
occupied Syrian Golan that are contrary to international law,
Affirming that the Israeli settlement policies and practices in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, seriously endanger the viability of the twoState solution, undermining the physical possibility of its realization and entrenching a oneState reality of unequal rights,
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A/HRC/22/63.
A/67/738.