Attachments
General Assembly
Seventy-eighth session
Item 61 of the preliminary list
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan
over their natural resources
Economic and Social Council
2023 session
25 July 2022–26 July 2023
Agenda item 16
Economic and social repercussions of the
Israeli occupation on the living conditions of
the Palestinian people in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the
occupied Syrian Golan
Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan - Note by the Secretary-General
Summary
In its resolution 2022/22, entitled “Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan”, the Economic and Social Council requested the Secretary - General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the implementation of that resolution. The Council, in its resolution 2022/23, entitled “Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women”, also requested the Secretary-General to include information on the genderspecific impact of the occupation and the progress made in the implementation of that resolution in that report. The Assembly, in its resolution 77/187, entitled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources”, also requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its seventyeighth session. The present document, which was prepared by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, has been submitted in compliance with these resolutions.
The report covers persistent Israeli practices and policies, in particular those that are in violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law and that affect the social and economic conditions of the people living under its military occupation, including the gendered impact of the occupation.
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia would like to express its appreciation for the contributions from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Mine Action Service of the Secretariat, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, the Un ited Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the World Health Organization.