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DOCUMENTS COMPILED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 65, PARAGRAPH 2, OF THE STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
(General Assembly’s request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice pursuant to its resolution 79/232)
Introductory Note
30 January 2025
I. Background
1. On 19 December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 79/232 entitled “Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States”. Operative paragraph 10 of the resolution contains the following request:
The General Assembly,
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10. Decides, in accordance with Article 96 of the Charter of the United Nations, to request the International Court of Justice, pursuant to Article 65 of the Statute of the Court, on a priority basis and with the utmost urgency, to render an advisory opinion on the following question, considering the rules and principles of international law, as regards in particular the Charter of the United Nations, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, privileges and immunities applicable under international law for international organizations and States, relevant resolutions of the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, the advisory opinion of the Court of 9 July 2004, and the advisory opinion of the Court of 19 July 2024, in which the Court reaffirmed the duty of an occupying Power to administer occupied territory for the benefit of the local population and affirmed that Israel is not entitled to sovereignty over or to exercise sovereign powers in any part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory on account of its occupation:
What are the obligations of Israel, as an occupying Power and as a member of the United Nations, in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, including its agencies and bodies, other international organizations and third States, in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including to ensure and facilitate the unhindered provision of urgently needed supplies essential to the survival of the Palestinian civilian population as well as of basic services and humanitarian and development assistance, for the benefit of the Palestinian civilian population, and in support of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination?
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2. The certified true copies of the resolution, in English and in French, were transmitted to the International Court of Justice (hereinafter, “the Court”) under cover of a letter dated 20 December 2024 from the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the President of the Court. In his letter, the Secretary-General informed the President of the Court that, pursuant to Article 65, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court, the United Nations Secretariat would prepare a dossier containing a collection of all relevant documents that are likely to throw light upon the question referred to above, to be transmitted to the Court in due course.
II. Framework of the Dossier
3. The dossier consists of two parts. Part I contains material relating to the adoption of the resolution containing the request by the General Assembly for an advisory opinion of the Court.
4. Part II comprises material of the United Nations relating to the question before the
Court. In view of the fact that the General Assembly’s question concerns the Occupied Palestinian Territory (hereinafter, “the OPT”) and of the time constraints associated with the General Assembly’s request for an advisory opinion “on a priority basis and with the utmost urgency”, Part II retains the structure of and documents contained in the dossier provided by the Secretariat to the Court in connection with the General Assembly’s request in resolution 77/247 of 30 December 2022 for an advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, delivered by the Court on 19 July 2024 (“the previous dossier”). The retained sections or sub-sections have been updated by adding documents issued since the submission of the previous dossier. Part II also includes additional sections or sub-sections containing documents pertaining to the question asked to the Court in resolution 79/232.
5. Part II is divided as follows: (a) General Assembly and Economic and Social Council (hereinafter, “ECOSOC”) Documentation; (b) General Assembly Emergency Special Sessions Documentation; (c) Security Council Documentation; (d) Human Rights Documentation; (e) Relevant Instruments; and (f) Other Documents Without Document Symbols. An overview of these sections and sub-sections therein can be found further below in the present introductory note. For ease of use, the newly included sections or sub-sections are indicated in the present introductory note with asterisks on the headings of those sections.
6. The dossier is generally comprised of United Nations documents bearing an official document symbol of the United Nations published from 1967, the year in which the occupation began, through the present. Documents that are primarily administrative or procedural in nature are not included. Letters from individual Member and Observer States, even if circulated as United Nations documents, are not included, with the exception of those that are contained in a
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report of the Secretary-General or provide additional and useful context to a particular document. Sections II (E) entitled “Relevant Instruments” and II (F) entitled “Unpublished Communications to Israel” include documents that relate to the question before the Court but do not bear an official document symbol.
7. The present introductory note is accompanied by an annex which contains a list of all documents in the dossier. In Part II of this list of documents, new documents are sequentially numbered alongside the letter “N” (indicating that they are new documents), starting with N1. The numbering of documents contained in the previous dossier remains unchanged.
III. Part I: Material relating to the Request by the General Assembly for an Advisory Opinion of the Court
8. Part I of the dossier contains those documents pertaining to the adoption of General Assembly resolution 79/232.
IV. Part II: Material of the United Nations Relating to the Question before the Court
A. Section II (A): General Assembly and ECOSOC Documentation
1. Types of documents contained in this section
9. Given the significant volume of documentation of the General Assembly and ECOSOC concerning the OPT and on the presence and activities of the United Nations in and in relation to the OPT, this part of the dossier mainly contains resolutions of the General Assembly and ECOSOC and reports to those principal organs that provide a substantive overview of the situation in the OPT and of the presence and activities of the United Nations in and in relation to the OPT. Some relevant letters published as official documents of the General Assembly have also been included.
10. Given the volume of official records of the relevant meetings of the General Assembly and its subsidiary organs, these have not been included. For similar reasons, the reports and documents of the relevant committees of the General Assembly have not been included as the outcome of the committees’ deliberations is generally contained in the resolutions of the General Assembly.
11. In instances where similar information appears in multiple documents of the General Assembly, such as a source document and a summary document, the source document has been included in the dossier rather than the summary or reporting document.
2. Structure of this section
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12. Section II (A) is divided into 11 sub-sections as outlined further below. Sub-sections II (A)(1) to II (A)(8) correspond to the same sub-sections in the previous dossier. Some official documents which belong to one of those sub-sections and were issued after the submission of the previous dossier, as well as other relevant official documents which were not included in the previous dossier, have been added to the relevant sub-sections.
13. Sub-section II (A)(9), entitled “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)”, which was also in the previous dossier, has been retained, but contains the following three new items: item l. entitled “General Assembly resolutions concerning assistance to Palestine refugees”; item m. entitled “General Assembly resolutions concerning UNRWA and the proposed programme budget”; and item n. entitled “Letters to the President of the General Assembly”.
14. As far as item l. is concerned, General Assembly resolutions concerning assistance to Palestine refugees were part of the resolutions on UNRWA (contained in item a. of Part II (A)(9)) until the fiftieth session and became stand-alone resolutions as of the fifty-first session. Therefore, the stand-alone resolutions on assistance to Palestine refugees have been included in item l. so that all of the resolutions on this subject are under sub-section II (A)(9). With respect to item n., it contains letters of the Secretary-General (some of which are identical letters to the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council) and a letter of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addressed to the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council concerning UNRWA which have been issued as official documents from October 2024 onwards. Additional, unpublished correspondence from the Secretariat concerning UNRWA is contained in section II (F).
15. Two new sub-sections added in section II (A) are as follows: sub-section II (A)(10) entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian People” and sub-section II (A)(11) entitled “Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel”.
3. Overview of the sub-sections
Sub-section II (A)(1): Israeli Settlements
16. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions (1991-2024);
b. ECOSOC resolutions (1992-1996);
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c. Reports of the Secretary-General and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (1991-2024).1
Sub-section II (A)(2): Living Conditions of the Palestinian People
17. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions (1976-1991);2
b. Reports of the Secretary-General (1977-1991);3
c. ECOSOC resolutions (1997-2023);4
d. Reports of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (1998-2024).
Sub-section II (A)(3): Palestinian Children and Women
18. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions concerning the situation of Palestinian children (2002-2004);
b. ECOSOC resolutions concerning the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (1984-2023);5
c. Reports and Notes of the Secretary-General concerning the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (1986-2019);6
d. Selected reports of the Secretary-General regarding Children and Armed Conflict with specific mention to the OPT.
Sub-section II (A)(4): Permanent Sovereignty over Natural and National Resources
19. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions related to the permanent sovereignty over natural and national resources in the OPT (1962, 1973-1983,7 1996-2024);
1 There was no report for 1998.
2 Starting in 1985, this item was considered every other year by the General Assembly.
3 Starting in 1985, the Secretary-General submitted a report every other year.
4 The 2020 resolution was published in 2021 and there was no additional resolution in 2021.
5 Between 1984-1988, these resolutions were adopted once every two years. There was no resolution in 1994. The resolution for 2020 was published in 2021 and there was no additional resolution in 2021.
6 For 2022, see the ESCWA report A/77/90-E/2022/66 of 8 June 2022 in sub-section II (A)(2), item d.
7 In 1972, this issue was taken up in the resolution on the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People (see A/RES/3005 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, in sub-section II (A)(8), item a). There was no resolution in 1978. For the period 1991-1996, the General Assembly and ECOSOC resolutions related to the Israeli settlements detailed in sub-section II (A)(1), items a and b refer to natural resources.
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b. Reports of the Secretary-General (1975, 1977, 1981-1985);8
c. General Assembly decisions (1984-1985) and ECOSOC resolutions (1989-1990) concerning the economic and trade practices of Israel in the OPT;
d. Report of the Secretary-General on Israeli trade practices (1989) and a report from the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia on Israeli land and water practices (1991).
Sub-section II (A)(5): Right to Self-Determination
20. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions entitled “Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights” (1970-1994);
b. General Assembly resolutions entitled “Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination” (1981-2024);
c. General Assembly resolutions entitled “Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination” (1994-2024).
Sub-section II (A)(6): Question of Palestine
21. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions on the “Question of Palestine” (1974-1995), General Assembly resolutions on “International Peace Conference on the Middle East” (1990, 1991) and a General Assembly resolution on “Status of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” (2004);
b. General Assembly resolutions on the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), which was established under resolution 3376 (XXX) of 10 November 1975 (1996-2022);9
c. Reports of the CEIRPP (1976-2024);
d. Reports entitled “Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People” prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development further to CEIRPP resolutions (2016, 2018-2024);
e. General Assembly resolutions entitled “Peaceful settlement of the Question of Palestine” (1996-2022, 2024);
8 In 1997, this issue was covered in the report of the Secretary-General related to the economic and social consequences of the Israeli settlements (see A/52/172-E/1997/71 in sub-section II (A)(1), item c above). The ESCWA reports from 1998-2022 on the living conditions of the Palestinian people contained in sub-section II (A)(2) above are also in response to the resolutions on permanent sovereignty over natural resources.
9 There was no resolution in 2021.
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f. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning the peaceful settlement of the Question of Palestine (1984-2021);
g. General Assembly resolutions concerning the Palestinian intifadah (1988-1991);
h. Report of the Secretary-General concerning the Palestinian intifadah (1988).10
Sub-section II (A)(7): Situation in the Middle East
22. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions concerning the “Situation in the Middle East” (1970-1995),11 and General Assembly resolutions concerning peace in the Middle East (1976, 1977, 1990, 1991, 1993-1996, 2018);
b. Reports of the Secretary-General (1971-1992 and 2024);12
c. General Assembly resolutions concerning Jerusalem (1981, 1996-2018, 2021);13
d. Reports of the Secretary-General that contain information from Israel or the State of Palestine regarding Jerusalem (1982, 1992, 2000-2004, 2006, 2016-2019) and one report concerning excavations in eastern Jerusalem (1981).
Sub-section II (A)(8): Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People
23. This sub-section contains documents relating to the work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, which was established under General Assembly resolution 2443 (XXIII) (1968) (hereinafter “Special Committee”) as follows:
a. General Assembly resolutions on the Special Committee (1968-1995) and on the Work of the Special Committee (1996-2023);14
b. Annual reports of the Special Committee (1970-2024);
c. Periodic reports of the Special Committee (1989-2002);15
d. General Assembly resolution entitled “Situation in the occupied territories” (1979);
e. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning expulsion/deportation further to the Special Committee resolutions (1981-1993);
10 See also the reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council in section II (C) below: S/19443 (21 January 1988), S/21919 (31 October 1990) and S/22472 (9 April 1991).
11 There were no resolutions adopted in 1973 and 1974.
12 There were no reports in 1973, 1974 or 1975.
13 There were no resolutions on this topic in 2019, 2020, or 2022. The issue of Jerusalem is also referenced in the 1979-1981 resolutions on the “Question of Palestine”.
14 There was no resolution in 2022 and 2024.
15 The periodic reports of the Special Committee were discontinued in 2003. See paragraph 11 of the Special Committee’s report of 22 August 2003 (A/58/311) in sub-section II (A)(8), item b in which the Special Committee noted that “[d]ue to the restrictions imposed on the elaboration of reports to the General Assembly, the Special Committee gave up the submitting of periodic reports”.
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f. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning arbitrary detention/imprisonment further to the Special Committee resolutions (1984-1993);
g. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning attempted assassinations further to the Special Committee resolutions (1981, 1983-1985);
h. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning reports of the Special Committee further to the Special Committee resolutions (1994-1996);
i. General Assembly resolutions related to Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the OPT, including Jerusalem (1996-2022);16
j. Reports of the Secretary-General related to Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the OPT, including Jerusalem (1989, 1997-2021, 2023);17
k. General Assembly resolutions related to the application of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the OPT, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories (1996-2018);18
l. Reports of the Secretary-General related to the application of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the OPT, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories (1981-2019).
Sub-section II (A)(9): United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
24. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions concerning UNRWA (1967-2023);
b. Annual reports of the UNRWA Commissioner-General (1967-2024);
c. General Assembly resolutions entitled “Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities” (1996-2019);
d. Reports of the Secretary-General related to persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities (1969-2018);19
e. General Assembly resolutions concerning the University of Jerusalem “Al Quds” for Palestine refugees (1996-2002);
f. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning the University of Jerusalem “Al Quds” for Palestine refugees (1981-2003);
g. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip pursuant to the UNRWA resolutions (1972-1988);20
16 There was no resolution adopted in 2021.
17 There was no report in 2022 and 2024.
18 In 2019-2024, the General Assembly referenced this issue in its resolutions on Israeli settlements detailed in sub-section II (A)(1), item a.
19 After 2018, this issue has been considered in the reports of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA. There was no report requested for 1970.
20 For the years 1974-1976, see the reports of the Secretary-General under sub-section II (A)(9), item d (A/9740 of 17 September 1974, A/10253 of 16 September 1975 and A/31/240 of 4 October 1976).
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h. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning Palestine refugees in the West Bank pursuant to the UNRWA resolutions (1984-1988);
i. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning Palestine refugees in the OPT since 1967 pursuant to the UNRWA resolutions (1989-1994);
j. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning protection of Palestine refugees pursuant to the UNRWA resolutions (1983-1994);
k. Reports of the Secretary-General concerning protection of Palestinian students and educational institutions pursuant to the UNRWA resolutions (1990-1994);
l. General Assembly resolutions concerning assistance to Palestine refugees (1996-2024); *
m. General Assembly resolutions concerning UNRWA and the proposed programme budget (2023-2024); *
n. Letters to the President of the General Assembly (2024-2025). *
Sub-section II (A)(10): Assistance to the Palestinian People *
25. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions (1978-2024);
b. Reports of the Secretary-General (1980-2024).
Sub-section II (A)(11): Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel *
26. This sub-section contains:
a. General Assembly resolutions (1997-2024);
b. Reports of the Secretary-General (1998-2024).
B. Section II (B): General Assembly Emergency Special Sessions Documentation
27. This section contains General Assembly resolutions from its fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth emergency special sessions and reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly.21 Resolutions adopted in 2023 and 2024 by the General Assembly at its tenth emergency special session have been added to the resolutions of the tenth emergency special session which were already in the previous dossier. A letter of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolution ES-10/26 entitled “Demand for ceasefire in Gaza” has also been added to the dossier.22
21 Only the last progress report of the Board of the United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the OPT has been included as this is a cumulative document and contains references to the Board’s previous reports.
22 This letter was not issued as an official document of the General Assembly. Therefore, it does not have a document symbol.
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C. Section II (C): Security Council Documentation
28. This section contains documentation of the United Nations Security Council relating to:
1. The situation in the OPT;
2. The safety and security of humanitarian personnel and United Nations and associated personnel. *
29. Sub-section II (C)(1) contains all the documents which were included in the previous dossier concerning Security Council documentation, as well as relevant documentation which was not contained in the previous dossier. Sub-section II (C)(2) is an entirely new sub-section; the documents therein may throw light upon the question of the General Assembly.
30. For both sub-sections, documents are provided in chronological order and include: (i) Security Council resolutions; (ii) statements and notes by the President of the Security Council; (iii) Security Council Commission reports; (iv) Security Council press statements; (v) reports and notes of the Secretary-General to the Security Council; and (vi) letters from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council and letters to the Secretary-General.
31. The verbatim records of the Security Council have not been included in sub-section II (C)(1), with three exceptions. First, as in the previous dossier, the dossier includes verbatim records containing oral reports of the Secretary-General or his representative to the Security Council in response to Security Council resolution 2334 (2016). Second, the dossier includes the verbatim records containing oral reports of the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza pursuant to resolution 2720 (2023). Third, it contains verbatim records pertaining to relevant briefings of the Secretary-General or his representative since December 2024, as the last report of the Secretary-General on the Occupied Palestinian Territory covers the period up to 6 December 2024 (S/2024/913), and those briefings provide information on the events that have happened after that date.
D. Section II (D): Human Rights Documentation
32. This section corresponds to the section of the previous dossier concerning human rights documentation. It has been updated and contains relevant documents issued since the submission of the previous dossier. No new sub-sections have been added.
Sub-section II (D)(1): General Assembly
33. This sub-section contains:
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a. Resolutions and a Note by the President of the General Assembly;
b. Reports of the Secretary-General;
c. Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel;
d. Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2001-2024);23
e. A report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Sub-section II (D)(2): Human Rights Council
34. This sub-section contains:
a. Resolutions on the human rights situation (2006-2024);
b. Reports on the human rights situation (2008-2024);24
c. Reports of commissions of inquiry, fact-finding missions, experts committee;
d. Reports of special procedures mandate holders, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2006-2024) and other Special Rapporteurs and Special Representatives;
e. Resolutions entitled “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan” (2006-2024);25
f. Reports on Israeli settlements (2013-2024);
g. Resolutions entitled “Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” (2008-2024);
h. Reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2007-2010).
35. For the reports of special procedures mandate holders, only reports specific to the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been included. Reports by special procedures mandate holders that are not specific to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, but that include passages dealing with the Occupied Palestinian Territory, are not included.
Sub-section II (D)(3): Commission on Human Rights
36. This sub-section contains:
a. Resolutions on the human rights situation (1968-2005);
b. Resolutions entitled “The right of peoples to self-determination and its application to peoples under colonial or alien domination or foreign occupation” (1978-1985);
23 There was no report in 2003.
24 There was no report in 2012.
25 There was no resolution in 2007.
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c. Resolutions entitled “Situation in occupied Palestine” (1986-2005) and a resolution entitled “Situation in the Arab territories occupied by Israel” (1986);
d. Resolutions entitled “Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories” (1990-2004) and a resolution entitled “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan” (2005);
e. Resolutions entitled “Middle East peace process” (1994-1997);
f. Reports submitted to the Commission of Human Rights (1994-2006).26
Sub-section II (D)(4): Treaty Bodies
37. This sub-section contains documents relating to the work of the following human rights treaty bodies: the Committee Against Torture; the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; the Committee on the Rights of the Child; and the Human Rights Committee.27
38. For each of these treaty bodies, the national (periodic) reports of Israel and the State of Palestine are included, as well as the concluding observations and recommendations adopted by such bodies, and the States’ follow-up comments or views in response to the concluding observations.28 Correspondence from these bodies seeking additional information prior to or following the submission of States’ reports, including “lists of issues”, and the replies from Israel or the State of Palestine to this correspondence, are not included in the Dossier.
Sub-section II (D)(5): Universal Periodic Review
39. This sub-section contains documents submitted or adopted in the context of the Universal Periodic Review (“UPR”):29
a. National reports submitted by Israel;
b. Reports of the Working Group on the UPR;
26 There was no report in 1995. In addition, reports of the Secretary-General have not been included here as they are limited to reporting on the dissemination of the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and do not contain any substantive responses from Israel.
27 In light of the volume of the dossier, the relevant treaties (with the related treaty actions effected by Israel or the State of Palestine and depositary notifications of the Secretary-General), as published in the United Nations Treaty Series, are not included. The certified true copies, as well as the relevant volumes of the United Nations Treaty Series, are readily available on the United Nations Treaty Collection website (https://treaties.un.org).
28 With respect to the observations and recommendations of a treaty body, the date of adoption of the reports is indicated in the annex, where available; otherwise, the date of publication of the document is indicated in the annex. In the case of submission of reports or information, the date of receipt is indicated in the annex where available; otherwise, the date of publication of the document is indicated in the annex.
29 The summaries of stakeholders’ submissions to the UPR, prepared for the purpose of the UPR by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (“OHCHR”) in accordance with relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, are not included in light of the size of the dossier and the availability of the full texts of all submissions on OHCHR’s website (Universal Periodic Review – Israel, https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/upr/il-index).
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c. Views on conclusions and recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the State under review;
d. Relevant decisions of the Human Rights Council on the outcome of the UPR.
E. Section II (E): Relevant Instruments *
40. This section contains relevant instruments relating to the presence and activities of organizations of the United Nations system in the OPT, including those containing provisions on the legal status, privileges and immunities of the concerned entities.30 Such instruments have been concluded between the relevant organization and the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Liberation Organization or Israel. Upon request of the Secretariat, the following United Nations organs and specialized agencies submitted relevant instruments:
1. The following organs of the United Nations:
a. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP);
b. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS); and
c. UNRWA; and
2. The following specialized agencies:
a. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);
b. The International Labour Organization (ILO); and
c. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
F. Section II (F): Other Documents Without Document Symbols *
41. This section contains some recent documents without document symbols which may be relevant to the question of the General Assembly. This section includes letters from the Secretary-General, notes verbales from the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat of the United Nations, letters from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, and a report concerning UNRWA. Some letters from UNRWA to the relevant Israeli authorities which UNRWA provided to the Secretariat for the purpose of inclusion in the present dossier have also been included in this section.
42. Some of these communications relate to concrete cases in which UNRWA faced difficulties in carrying out its activities in the OPT. The purpose of including these
30 In light of the volume of the dossier, the text of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, adopted by the General Assembly on 13 February 1946, to which Israel acceded on 21 September 1949 is not included. The certified true copies, as well as the relevant volumes of the United Nations Treaty Series, are readily available on the United Nations Treaty Collection website (https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=III-1&chapter=3).
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communications is to document the positions taken by the United Nations with respect to the obligations of Israel and not in anticipation of a legal assessment of those concrete cases.
43. It is recalled that relevant letters to the President of the General Assembly, which are issued as official documents with document symbols, are contained in sub-section II (A)(9), item n.
Introductory Note (documents received from the Secretariat of the United Nations)