A/HRC/RES/55/31
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other
occupied Arab territories
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 5 April 2024
55/31.
Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan
The Human Rights Council,
Deeply concerned at the suffering of the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan
due to the systematic and continuous violation of their fundamental and human rights by
Israel since the Israeli military occupation of 1967,
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling also all relevant General Assembly resolutions, the most recent being
resolutions 74/90 of 13 December 2019, 75/99 of 10 December 2020, 76/81 of 9 December
2021, 77/125 of 12 December 2022 and 78/77 of 7 December 2023, in which the Assembly
declared that Israel had failed to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and
demanded that it withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan,
Recalling further General Assembly resolutions 73/98 of 7 December 2018, 74/88 of
13 December 2019, 75/97 of 10 December 2020, 76/82 of 9 December 2021, 77/126 of 12
December 2022 and 78/78 of 7 December 2023,
Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision by Israel of 14 December 1981 to
impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has
resulted in the effective annexation of that territory,
Reaffirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law,
Taking note with deep concern of 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,1 and in this connection deploring the Israeli settlements in the
occupied Arab territories and expressing regret at the constant refusal of Israel to cooperate
with and to receive the Special Committee,
Guided by the relevant provisions of the Charter, international law and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949 (Fourth
1
A/77/501.
GE.24-06696 (E)