Text: Human Rights Council call for Israel to remove all Israelis from Ramat
Eshkol, Jewish Quarter, etc.
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session19/FFM/FFMSettlements.pdf
Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda item 7
Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
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
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4. For the purpose of its work, the Mission understands
“Israeli settlements”, hereinafter “settlements”, to encompass all physical
and non-physical structures and processes that constitute, enable and
support the establishment, expansion and maintenance of Israeli residential
communities beyond the 1949 Green Line in the OPT.1 The Mission does not
differentiate between “settlements”, “settlement blocks”, “outposts”, or any
other structures that have been erected, established, expanded and/or
appropriated or any land or natural resources appropriated...
16. Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention also prohibits an
occupying Power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into
the territory that it occupies. This prohibition has attained the status of
customary international law. The Mission notes that the Israeli settlements
in the OPT, including East Jerusalem, violate this provision and are, thus,
illegal under international law.7
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III. Context
18. ‘Israeli settlements’ are located beyond the 1949 Green Line and
include structures in East Jerusalem...
VI. Recommendations
112. Israel must, in compliance with article 49 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention, cease all settlement activities without preconditions. In
addition it must immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all
settlers from the OPT. ...
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