The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and the need to respect the obligations arising from the Charter and other instruments and rules of international law,
Reaffirming the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolution 79/91 of 4 December 2024, as well as those resolutions adopted at its tenth emergency special session,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, including resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 446 (1979) of 22 March 1979, 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980, 476 (1980) of 30 June 1980, 478 (1980) of 20 August 1980, 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981, 904 (1994) of 18 March 1994 and 2334 (2016) of 23 December 2016, and stressing the need for their implementation,
Recalling further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,¹
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,² the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights³ and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,⁴ and affirming that these human rights instruments must be respected in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Reaffirming the applicability of the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 1907, the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,⁵ and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified in Additional Protocol I⁶ to the four Geneva Conventions,⁷ to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including the occupied Syrian Golan,
Affirming that the transfer by the occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies constitutes a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention,⁸
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 19 July 2024 by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and from the illegality of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the Court’s determination, inter alia, that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and that Israel has an obligation to bring it to an end as rapidly as possible, and its reaffirmation that the Israeli settlements and the regime associated with them have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law,⁹
Recalling also the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,¹⁰ and recalling further General Assembly resolutions ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
Taking note of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,¹¹ as well as of other relevant recent reports of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,¹²
Recalling also the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of 13 September 1993¹³ and the subsequent implementation agreements between the Palestinian and Israeli sides,
Recalling further the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,¹⁴ and emphasizing specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement activity, including so-called natural growth, and the dismantlement of all settlement outposts erected since March 2001,
Recalling its resolution 67/19 of 29 November 2012,
Noting the accession by Palestine to several human rights treaties and the core humanitarian law conventions, as well as other international treaties,
Aware that Israeli settlement activities involve, inter alia, the transfer of nationals of the occupying Power into the occupied territories, the confiscation of land, the forced transfer of Palestinian civilians, including Bedouin families, the exploitation of natural resources, the fragmentation of territory and other actions against the Palestinian civilian population and the civilian population in the occupied Syrian Golan that are contrary to international law,
Bearing in mind the extremely detrimental impact of Israeli settlement policies, decisions and activities on the prospects for the achievement of peace in the Middle East and on the viability of the two-State solution,
Condemning settlement activities by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as violations of international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations resolutions,
Condemning also acts of violence and terror against civilians on both sides,
Reaffirms that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan are illegal and an obstacle to peace and economic and social development;
Demands that Israel accept the de jure applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including the occupied Syrian Golan, and abide scrupulously by the provisions of the Convention, in particular article 49;
Reiterates its demand for the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan;
Stresses that a complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-State solution on the basis of the pre-1967 borders;
Calls upon all States to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967;
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.
Footnotes
¹ Resolution 217 A (III).
² See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
³ Ibid.
⁴ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
⁵ Ibid., vol. 75, No. 973.
⁶ Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
⁷ Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
⁸ Ibid., No. 973.
⁹ A/78/968.
¹⁰ A/ES-10/273 and A/ES-10/273/Corr.1.
¹¹ A/HRC/53/59, A/HRC/55/73 and A/HRC/59/23.
¹² A/HRC/22/63.
¹³ A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
¹⁴ S/2003/529, annex.
Source: “Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its 80th session,” United Nations.