The situation in the Arab territories occupied by Israel.

1986/33. Situation in the Arab territories occupied by Israel[1]102

The Commission on Human Rights,

1. Condemns Israel for its continued occupation of the Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and of other Arab territories in violation of revenant United Nations resolutions and of the provisions of international law;

2. Strongly condemns Israeli policies and practices of terrorist action perpetrated against the Palestinian inhabitants of the occupied territories, such as killing, detention and torture, deportation, and confiscation and annexation of land, which constitute grave violations of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all relevant United Nations resolution;

3. Condemns Israel for its persistence in developing the colonization of these territories which aims at changing the demographic composition, the institutional structure and the status of the occupied territories, including Jerusalem;

4. Reaffirms that such measures as are described in the foregoing paragraphs constitute grave violations of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,[2]103 and of The Hague Convention IV of 1907,[3]104 and that they are null and void with regard to international law;

5. Calls upon Israel to withdraw immediately from the occupied Palestinian territories, Including Jerusalem, in order to restore to the Palestinian people their Inalienable national rights, and from all the other occupied Arab territories.

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[1]102 Adopted at the 52nd meeting, on 11 March 1986, by a roll-call vote of 28 to 6, with 5 abstentions. See chap. XIX, para. 497. [2]103 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973, p. 287. [3]104 Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University press, 1915), p. 100.