United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/173 Distr.: General 24 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 101 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/499)] 59/173. The situation of and assistance to Palestinian children The General Assembly, Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 Bearing in mind the conclusion by the International Court of Justice, in its advisory opinion of 9 July 2004, 2 that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is applicable within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Recalling the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s adopted by the World Summit for Children, held in New York on 29 and 30 September 1990, 3 Recalling also the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh special session, 4 Recalling further the relevant provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 5 Noting with grave concern that the Palestinian children under Israeli occupation remain deprived of many basic rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Concerned about the continued grave deterioration of the situation of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, the severely detrimental impact of the continuing Israeli assaults and sieges on Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, and the continuing dire humanitarian crisis on the safety and well-being of Palestinian children, Concerned also about the severely detrimental impact being caused by the unlawful construction of the wall by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531. See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1. 3 A/45/625, annex. 4 See resolution S-27/2, annex. 5 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 2 04-48664