Condemns those policies and practices of Israel which violate the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, such acts as the opening of fire by the Israeli army and settlers that result in the killing and wounding of defenceless Palestinian civilians, the beating and breaking of bones, the deportation of Palestinian civilians, the imposition of restrictive economic measures, the demolition of houses, the ransacking of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, collective punishment and detentions, and so forth; demands that Israel abide scrupulously by the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and desist immediately from those policies and practices which are in violation of the provisions of the Convention; calls upon all the High Contracting Parties to the Convention to ensure respect by Israel for the Convention in all circumstances; reaffirms that the occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territory since 1967, including Jerusalem, and of the other Arab territories, in no way changes the legal status of those territories; requests the Security Council to examine with urgency the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory with a view to considering measures needed to provide international protection to the Palestinian civilians in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem.

Adopted 140-2-6, 23rd meeting

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Adopted at the 23rd plenary meeting, 6 Oct. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 12-13. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).