Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 77Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories, published in 1990.

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Commends the Special Committee to Investigate Is raeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Popula tion of the Occupied Territories for its efforts in perform ing the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly and for its impartiality;

Deplores the continued refusal by Israel to allow the Special Committee access to the occupied Palestinian ter ritory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories oc cupied by Israel since 1967;

Demands that Israel allow the Special Committee access to those occupied territories;

Reaffirms the fact that occupation itself constitutes a grave violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967;

Condemns the continued and persistent violation by Israe_l of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and other applicable international instruments, and con demns in particular those violations which the Convention designates as "grave breaches" thereof;

Declares once more that Israel's grave breaches of that Convention are war crimes and an affront to humanity;

Reaffirms, in accordance with the Convention, that the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories is of a temporary nature, thus giving no right whatsoever to the occupying Power over the territorial integrity of the oc cupied territories;

Strongly condemns the following Israeli policies and practices:

Annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem;

Imposition of Israeli laws, jurisdiction and admin istration on the Syrian Arab Golan, which has resulted in the effective annexation of that territory;

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Illegal imposition and levy of taxes and dues;

( d) Establishment of new Israeli settlements and ex pansion of the existing settlements on private and public Palestinian and other Arab lands, and transfer of an alien population thereto;

Eviction, deportation, expulsion, displacement and transfer of Palestinians and other Arabs of those occupied territories and denial of their right to return;

Confiscation and expropriation of private and pub lic Palestinian and other Arab property in those occupied territories and all other transactions for the acquisition of land by the Israeli authorities, institutions or nationals;

Excavation and transformation of the landscape and the historical, cultural and religious sites, especially at Jerusalem;

Pillaging of archaeological and cultural property;

( t) Destruction and demolition of Palestinian and other Arab houses;

(/) Collective punishment, mass arrests, administrative detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians and other !\rahs;

( k) Torture of Palestinians and other Arabs;

Interference with religious freedoms and practices,

(/) as well as family rights and customs;

Interference with the system of education and with the social and economic and health development of t̸ e Palestinians and other Arabs in those occupied territo nes;

Interference with the freedom of movement of in dividuals within the occupied Palestinian territory, in cluding Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by lsrael since I 96 7 (o)

Illegal exploitation of the natural wealth, resources c1nd labour of those occupied territories;

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Strongly condemns, in particular, the following Isra di policies and practices:

Implementation of an "iron-fist" policy against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory;

( b) Escalation of Israeli brutality since the beginning of the uprising (intifadah) on 9 December 1987;

Ill-treatment and torture of children and minors under detention and/or imprisonment;

( d) Closure of headquarters and offices of trade unions and social organizations and harassment, including expul -;ion of their leaders, as well as attacks on hospitals and I heir personnel;

( e) Interference with the freedom of the press, includ mg censorship, detention or expulsion of journalists, clo -;ure and suspension of newspapers and magazines, as well as denial of access to international media;

Killing and wounding of defenceless demonstra rnrs;

Breaking 1)f bones and limbs of thousands of civil ians;

( h) House and/or town arrests;

Lise of toxic gas, which has resulted, inter alia, in the killing of many Palestinians;

Condemns the Israeli repression against and clos mg of the educational institutions in the occupied Syrian .'\rab Golan, particularly the prohibition of Syrian text-

books and the Syrian educational system, the deprivation of Syrian students from pursuing their higher education in Syrian universities, the denial of the right to return to Syrian students receiving their higher education in the Syrian Arab Republic, the forcing of Hebrew on Syrian students, the imposition of courses that promote hatred, prejudice and religious intolerance, and the dismissal of teachers, all in clear violation of the Geneva Convention;

Strongly condemns the arming of Israeli settlers in those occupied territories to perpetrate and commit acts of violence against Palestinians and other Arabs, causing deaths and injuries;

Requests the Security Council to ensure Israel's re spect for and compliance with all the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, in the oc cupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, and to initiate measures to halt Israeli policies and practices in those territories;

Urges the Security Council to consider the current situation in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, taking into account the recommendations con tained in the reports of the Secretary-General, and with a view to securing international protection for the defence less Palestinian people until the withdrawal of Israel, the occupying Power, from the occupied Palestinian territory;

Reaffirms that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or legal status of those occupied ter ritories, or any part thereof, including Jerusalem, are null and void, and that Israel's policy of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those occupied territo ries constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conven tion and of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations;

Demands that Israel desist forthwith from the poli cies and practices referred to in paragraphs 8, 9, 10 and 11 above;

Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to allow the reopening of the Roman Catholic Medical Facility Hospice in Jerusalem in order to continue to provide needed health and medical services to the Palestinians in the city;

Also calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to take immediate steps for the return of all displaced Arab and Palestinian inhabitants to their homes or former places of residence in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, in implementation of Security Council resolu tion 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967;

Urges international organizations, including the specialized agencies, in particular the International La bour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization, to continue to examine the educa tional and health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 196 7;

Reiterates its call upon all States, in particular those States parties to the Geneva Convention, in accor dance with article l of that Convention, and upon interna tional organizations, including the specialized agencies, not to recognize any changes carried out by Israel, the oc cupying Power, in those occupied territories and to avoid actions, including those in the field of aid, which might be used by Israel in its pursuit of the policies of annexation and colonization or any of the other policies and practices referred to in the present resolution:

Requests the Special Committee, pending early ter mination of Israeli occupation, to continue to investigate Israeli policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, to consult, as appropriate, with the International Committee of the Red Cross in or der to ensure the safeguarding of the welfare and human rights of the peoples of those occupied territories and to report to the Secretary-General as soon as possible and whenever the need arises thereafter;

Also requests the Special Committee to submit regularly to the Secretary-General periodic reports on the present situation in the occupied Palestinian territory;

Further requests the Special Committee to con tinue to investigate the treatment of prisoners in the oc cupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967;

Condemns Israel's refusal to permit persons from the occupied Palestinian territory to appear as witnesses before the Special Committee and to participate in confer ences and meetings held outside the occupied Palestinian territory;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To provide all necessary facilities to the Special Committee, including those required for its visits to those occupied territories, so that it may investigate the Israeli policies and practices referred to in the present resolution;

To continue to make available additional staff as may be necessary to assist the Special Committee in the performance of its tasks;

To circulate regularly and periodically the reports mentioned in paragraph 21 above to the States Members of the United Nations;

To ensure the widest circulation of the reports of the Special Committee and of information regarding its activities and findings, by all means available, through the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat and, where necessary, to reprint those reports of the Special Committee which are no longer available;

To report to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session on the tasks entrusted to him in the present resolu tion:

Decides to change the name of the Special Commit tee to: "the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Prac tices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian Peo ple and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories";

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-fifth session an item entitled "Report of the Spe cial Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arahs of the Occupied Territories".

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