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20 February 2025<\/p>\n
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n Advance edited version<\/p>\n The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 55\/28<\/a>. It provides an overview of the implementation of the resolution and developments relevant to the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice.<\/p>\n Below are the conclusions and recommendations of the report. Please check the PDF version for the complete report.<\/p>\n 61. The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has deteriorated alarmingly since 7 October 2023, with gross violations of rights and disregard for obligations under international law escalating to unprecedented levels. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza continued to hold hostages and to fire inherently indiscriminate projectiles towards Israel. The military operations of Israel in Gaza had killed 43,204 Palestinians and injured at least 101,641 more since 7 October 2023, according to the Ministry of Health of the State of Palestine, and exposed hundreds of thousands more to the risks associated with mass displacement and humanitarian catastrophe. In October 2024, the Israeli military subjected North Gaza to siege and bombardment, while demanding the evacuation of the entire population, raising concerns that its conduct in North Gaza was placing the Palestinian population of the northernmost governorate at risk, through death or displacement.<\/p>\n 62. Israeli forces and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have committed violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza, in many cases amounting to war crimes and other gross violations and abuses of international human rights law. If committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population, further to a State or organizational policy, such acts may constitute crimes against humanity. If committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such, they may also constitute genocide.<\/p>\n 63. In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, there was an intensification of Israeli measures against Palestinians, which, coupled with pervasive State support for or collaboration with settler violence, exacerbated the occupation\u2019s stifling impact on Palestinians\u2019 lives and livelihoods, while deepening the denial of their right to self-determination.<\/p>\n 64. The frequency with which violations have gone unpunished has normalized duty bearers\u2019 egregious conduct. In Israel, the pervasive and long-standing lack of accountability and prevailing environment of impunity continued to enable international law violations, which escalated in the reporting period, with an unprecedented impact on the lives and rights of Palestinians. All duty bearers must act to ensure timely and effective investigations of alleged violations by credible, impartial judicial bodies, and appropriate sanctions for all perpetrators, whether State or private actors.<\/p>\n 65. The High Commissioner calls upon all parties to the conflict in Gaza to implement an immediate ceasefire and to ensure full respect for international law and accountability for violations and abuses.<\/p>\n 66. The High Commissioner in particular calls upon Israel:<\/p>\n (a) To immediately and effectively ensure the unhindered provision of basic services and humanitarian assistance to the population of Gaza, including through the removal of all practical barriers;<\/p>\n (b) To immediately take steps to ensure full compliance with international humanitarian law in the conduct of hostilities, including in relation to the targeting of civilians, including journalists, medical workers, emergency responders, government workers and police officers, and the protection of civilian objects;<\/p>\n (c) To ensure that all Palestinians displaced from and within Gaza are allowed to return to their homes as rapidly as possible by creating safe conditions and providing adequate alternatives to those whose homes have been rendered uninhabitable, to ensure adequate standards of living, including the provision of adequate accommodation as long as people remain displaced, and to refrain from any further unlawful displacement of Palestinians;<\/p>\n (d) To ensure and maintain hospital and other medical services and public health in Gaza, in line with its obligations as an occupying Power, with special regard for the health requirements of women and girls, who have been disproportionately affected by the near-total destruction of the health system in Gaza;<\/p>\n (e) To urgently ensure compliance with and implement fully the provisional measures indicated by the International Court of Justice in its orders of 26 January, 28 March and 24 May 2024 relating to the contentious proceedings brought under the Genocide Convention;<\/p>\n (f) To ensure that the rules of engagement of its forces and their application in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are fully consistent with international human rights law, including by refraining from the use of tactics and weaponry developed for warfare;<\/p>\n (g) To immediately end administrative detention and other forms of detention that amount to arbitrary detention and ensure that all detainees are released unless promptly charged and fairly tried, applying non-discriminatory laws;<\/p>\n (h) To bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible and in a manner consistent with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of 19 July 2024 and General Assembly resolution ES-10\/24 of 18 September 2024.<\/p>\n 67. The High Commissioner in particular calls upon Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza:<\/p>\n (a) To immediately and unconditionally release all hostages and ensure their humane treatment, including freedom from any form of abuse;<\/p>\n (b) To cease firing indiscriminate projectiles, refrain from co-locating military objectives and civilians and civilian infrastructure, especially when the intent is to prevent the targeting of military objectives, and comply fully with all other applicable obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law.<\/p>\n 68. The High Commissioner calls upon all duty bearers, including Israel, the Palestinian Authority and, as applicable, Hamas and other Palestinian groups:<\/p>\n (a) To prevent, repress and punish all violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of international human rights law, to conduct prompt, thorough, independent, impartial and effective investigations into all possible serious violations and abuses by duty bearers and private actors, and to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable and victims provided with redress;<\/p>\n (b) To immediately end all practices that may amount to torture or other ill-treatment, including sexual violence;<\/p>\n (c) To take immediate steps to prevent, repress and punish hate speech and all incitement to hatred and violence, including atrocity crimes;<\/p>\n (d) To ensure cooperation with the International Criminal Court and other international accountability mechanisms;<\/p>\n (e) To take measures to prevent and redress all forms of gender-based violence, including in the domestic sphere, and ensure that survivors have access to appropriate victim-centred support in accordance with international standards and that perpetrators are prosecuted and appropriately sentenced;<\/p>\n (f) To ensure that the rights to freedom of expression and association are respected and protected and that civil society actors can conduct their legitimate activities safely and freely.<\/p>\n 69. The High Commissioner calls upon all States and international organizations:<\/p>\n (a) To exert their influence to prevent international law violations by all parties to the conflict in Gaza, not to enable such violations, and to fulfil their obligations under international law to take steps to prevent and punish violations;<\/p>\n (b) To cooperate with the International Criminal Court and exercise universal jurisdiction to try crimes under international law in national courts, consistent with international standards;<\/p>\n (c) To comply with obligations under international law to neither recognize as legal nor aid or assist the maintenance of the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;<\/p>\n (d) To encourage Israel to cooperate with OHCHR and to issue visas to its full international staff, ensuring that OHCHR has access throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as in Israel, to monitor and document violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 20 February 2025 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Advance edited version The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 55\/28. 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