A/RES/73/99
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 55
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2018
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/73/524)]
73/99.
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian
people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including
East Jerusalem
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2 and the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, 3 and affirming that these human rights instruments must
be respected in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Reaffirming its relevant resolutions, including resolution 72/87 of 7 December
2017, as well as those adopted at its tenth emergency special session,
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, and stressing the
need for their implementation,
Having considered the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People a nd Other Arabs of
the Occupied Territories 4 and the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the
Special Committee, 5
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
A/73/499.
A/73/420.
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