{"id":314141,"date":"2025-12-05T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=314141"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:18:22","slug":"general-assembly-resolution-israeli-settlements-5dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/general-assembly-resolution-israeli-settlements-5dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan (A\/RES\/80\/81) \u2013 General Assembly Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5 December 2025<\/p>\n
The following resolution was adopted on 5 December 2025 by a recorded vote of 146 in favour to 13 against, with 17 abstentions.<\/p>\n
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Eightieth session<\/strong><\/p>\n Agenda item 50<\/p>\n Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (<\/em>A\/80\/537<\/em><\/a>, para. 15)<\/em>]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The General Assembly<\/em>,<\/p>\n Guided<\/em> 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,<\/p>\n Reaffirming<\/em> the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,<\/p>\n Recalling<\/em> its relevant resolutions, including resolution 79\/91<\/a> of 4\u00a0December 2024, as well as those resolutions adopted at its tenth emergency special session,<\/p>\n Recalling also<\/em> the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, including resolutions 242 (1967)<\/a> of 22\u00a0November 1967, 446 (1979)<\/a> of 22\u00a0March 1979, 465 (1980)<\/a> of 1\u00a0March 1980, 476 (1980)<\/a> of 30\u00a0June 1980, 478 (1980)<\/a> of 20\u00a0August 1980, 497 (1981)<\/a> of 17\u00a0December 1981, 904 (1994)<\/a> of 18\u00a0March 1994 and 2334 (2016)<\/a> of 23\u00a0December 2016, and stressing the need for their implementation,<\/p>\n Recalling further<\/em> the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,[1]<\/a><\/p>\n Recalling<\/em> the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,[2]<\/a> the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights[3]<\/a> and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,[4]<\/a> and affirming that these human rights instruments must be respected in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,<\/p>\n Reaffirming<\/em> 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\u00a0August 1949,[5]<\/a> and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified in Additional Protocol I[6]<\/a> to the four Geneva Conventions,[7]<\/a> to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including the occupied Syrian Golan,<\/p>\n Affirming<\/em> 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]<\/a><\/p>\n Recalling <\/em>the advisory opinion rendered on 19\u00a0July 2024 by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from Israel\u2019s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and from the illegality of Israel\u2019s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the Court\u2019s determination, inter alia, that Israel\u2019s 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]<\/a><\/p>\n Recalling also<\/em> the advisory opinion rendered on 9\u00a0July 2004 by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,[10]<\/a> and recalling further General Assembly resolutions ES-10\/15<\/a> of 20\u00a0July 2004 and ES-10\/17<\/a> of 15\u00a0December 2006,<\/p>\n Taking note<\/em> of the recent reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,[11]<\/a> as well as of other relevant recent reports of the Human Rights Council,<\/p>\n Recalling<\/em> 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]<\/a><\/p>\n Recalling also<\/em> the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of 13\u00a0September 1993[13]<\/a> and the subsequent implementation agreements between the Palestinian and Israeli sides,<\/p>\n Recalling further<\/em> the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,[14]<\/a> 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, and the need for Israel to uphold its obligations and commitments in this regard,<\/p>\n Recalling<\/em> its resolution 67\/19<\/a> of 29\u00a0November 2012,<\/p>\n Noting<\/em> the accession by Palestine to several human rights treaties and the core humanitarian law conventions, as well as other international treaties,<\/p>\n Aware<\/em> 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,<\/p>\n Bearing in mind<\/em> the extremely detrimental impact of Israeli settlement policies, decisions and activities on the ongoing regional and international efforts to resume and advance the peace process, on the prospects for the achievement of peace in the Middle East in accordance with the two-State solution of Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders, on the basis of the pre\u20111967 borders, and on the viability and credibility of that solution,<\/p>\n Condemning<\/em> settlement activities by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as violations of international humanitarian law, relevant United Nations resolutions, the agreements reached between the parties and obligations under the Quartet road map and as actions in defiance of the calls by the international community to cease all settlement activities,<\/p>\n Deploring in particular<\/em> Israel\u2019s construction and expansion of settlements in and around occupied East Jerusalem, including its so-called E-1 plan that aims to connect its illegal settlements around and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem, the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from the city, the revocation of Palestinian residency rights in the city, and ongoing settlement activities in the Jordan Valley, all of which further fragment and undermine the contiguity of the Occupied Palestinian Territory,<\/p>\n Deploring<\/em> the plans to demolish the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar, in contravention of international law, which would have serious consequences with regard to the displacement of its residents, severely threaten the viability of the two-State solution and undermine the prospect of peace, given the area\u2019s sensitive location and importance for preserving the contiguity of the Palestinian territory, and demanding the cessation of such plans,<\/p>\n Condemning<\/em> the demolition by Israel, in contravention of international law, of Palestinian buildings in the neighbourhood of Wadi al-Hummus in the village of Sur Bahir, south of occupied East Jerusalem, and of homes in Masafer Yatta, as well as other coercive measures potentially leading to the forced displacement and affecting over 1,200 Palestinian civilians,<\/p>\n Taking note<\/em> of the Quartet report of 1\u00a0July 2016,[15]<\/a> and stressing its recommendations, as well as its relevant statements in which the Quartet members concluded that, inter alia, the continuing policy of settlement construction and expansion, designation of land for exclusive Israeli use and denial of Palestinian development, including the recent high rate of demolitions, are steadily eroding the two-State solution,<\/p>\n Deploring<\/em> the continuing unlawful construction by Israel of the wall inside the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and expressing its concern, in particular, about the route of the wall in departure from the Armistice Line of 1949 and in such a way as to include the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and which is causing humanitarian hardship and a serious decline of socioeconomic conditions for the Palestinian people, is fragmenting the territorial contiguity of the Territory and undermining its viability, and could prejudge future negotiations and make the two-State solution physically impossible to implement,<\/p>\n Condemning<\/em> acts of violence and terror against civilians on both sides, and recalling the need to end all acts of violence, including acts of terror, provocation, incitement and destruction,<\/p>\n Condemning also<\/em> all acts of violence, destruction, harassment, provocation and incitement by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, against Palestinian civilians, including children, and their properties, including historic and religious sites, and agricultural lands, as well as acts of terror by several extremist Israeli settlers, and calling for accountability for the illegal actions perpetrated in this regard,<\/p>\n Taking note<\/em> of the relevant reports of the Secretary-General, including pursuant to Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)<\/a>,[16]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 55th plenary meeting<\/em><\/p>\n 5 December 2025<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [1]\u00a0 Resolution 217 A (III)<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [2]\u00a0 See resolution 2200 A (XXI)<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [3]\u00a0 Ibid.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [4]\u00a0 United Nations, Treaty Series<\/em>, vol. 1577, No. 27531.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [5]\u00a0 Ibid., vol. 75, No.\u00a0973.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [6]\u00a0 Ibid., vol. 1125, No.\u00a017512.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [7]\u00a0 Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970\u2013973.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [8]\u00a0 Ibid., No.\u00a0973.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [9]\u00a0 See A\/78\/968<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [10]\u00a0 See A\/ES-10\/273<\/a> and A\/ES-10\/273\/Corr.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [11]\u00a0 A\/HRC\/53\/59<\/a>, A\/HRC\/55\/73<\/a> and A\/HRC\/59\/23<\/a>; see also A\/78\/545<\/a>, A\/79\/384<\/a> and A\/80\/492<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [12]\u00a0 A\/HRC\/22\/63<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [13]\u00a0 A\/48\/486-S\/26560<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [14]\u00a0 S\/2003\/529<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [15]\u00a0 S\/2016\/595<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [16]\u00a0 A\/80\/443<\/a> and A\/80\/399<\/a>; see also A\/80\/365<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [17]\u00a0 United Nations, Treaty Series<\/em>, vol. 660, No. 9464.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [18]\u00a0 A\/ES-10\/794<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [19]\u00a0 A\/69\/711-S\/2015\/1<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [20]\u00a0 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No.\u00a053<\/em> (A\/66\/53<\/a>), chap. III, sect. A.<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [21]\u00a0 A\/HRC\/17\/31<\/a>, annex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5 December 2025 The following resolution was adopted on 5 December 2025 by a recorded vote of 146 in favour to 13 against, with 17 abstentions. 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80\/81.<\/strong> Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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