Resolution 641
(August 30, 1989)
The Security Council,
Reaffirming its resolutions 607 (1988) of 5 January 1988, 608 (1988)
of 14 January 1988 and 636 (1989) of 6 July 1989,
Having been apprised that Israel, the occupying Power, has once
again, in defiance of those resolutions, deported five Palestinian
civilians on 27 August 1989,
Expressing grave concern over the situation in the occupied
Palestinian territories;
Recalling the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and in particular
articles 47 and 49 thereof,
1. Deplores the continuing deportation by Israel, the occupying
Power, of Palestinian civilians;
2. Calls upon Israel to ensure the safe and immediate return to
the occupied Palestinian territories of those deported and to desist
forthwith from deporting any other Palestinian civilians;
3. Reaffirms that the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, is applicable to
the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967, including
Jerusalem, and to the other occupied Arab territories;
4. Decides to keep the situation under review.
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