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the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, and, as a first step
towards the dismantlement of the settlement enterprise, to stop immediately the
establishment of new settlements and the expansion of existing settlements, including socalled natural growth and related activities, and to discard any and all plans to install settlers
in the occupied territories, including in East Jerusalem;
(b)
To put an end to all of the human rights violations linked to the presence of
settlements, especially of the right to self-determination, and to fulfil its international
obligations to provide effective remedy for victims;
(c)
To take immediate measures to prohibit and eradicate all policies and practices
that discriminate against and disproportionately affect the Palestinian population in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, by, inter alia, putting an end to the
system of separate roads for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers, who reside illegally in the
said territory, the complex combination of movement restrictions consisting of the wall,
roadblocks and a permit regime that only affects the Palestinian population, the application
of a two-tier legal system that has facilitated the establishment and consolidation of the
settlements, and other violations and forms of institutionalized discrimination;
(d)
To cease the requisition and all other forms of unlawful appropriation of
Palestinian land, including so-called State land, and its allocation for the establishment and
expansion of settlements, and to halt the granting of benefits and incentives to settlements
and settlers;
(e)
To put an end to all practices and policies resulting in the territorial
fragmentation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and which are
isolating Palestinian communities into separate enclaves and deliberately changing the
demographic composition of the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
(f)
To take and implement serious measures, including the confiscation of arms
and enforcement of criminal sanctions, with the aim of ensuring full accountability for and
preventing all acts of violence by Israeli settlers, and to take other measures to guarantee the
safety and protection of Palestinian civilians and Palestinian properties and to afford all
victims of settler violence access to justice and effective remedy without discrimination in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
(g)
To bring to a halt all actions, including those perpetrated by Israeli settlers,
harming the environment, including the dumping of all kinds of waste materials in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan,
which gravely threaten their natural resources, namely water and land resources, and which
pose an environmental, sanitation and health threat to the civilian population;
(h)
To cease the exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion and
endangerment of the natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and of the occupied Syrian Golan;
8.
Welcomes the adoption of the European Union Guidelines on the eligibility of
Israeli entities and their activities in the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967 for
grants, prizes and financial instruments funded by the European Union since 2014;
9.
Urges all States and international organizations to ensure that they are not
taking actions that either recognize, aid or assist the expansion of settlements or the
construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and
to continue to actively pursue policies that ensure respect for their obligations under
international law with regard to these and all other illegal Israeli practices and measures in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem;
10.
Reminds all States of their legal obligations as mentioned in the advisory
opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004 on the legal consequences of the
construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including not to recognize the
illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall, not to render aid or assistance in
maintaining the situation created by such construction, and to ensure compliance by Israel
with international humanitarian law as embodied in the Fourth Geneva Convention;
11.
Calls upon all States:
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