Palestine and Israel: Legacies and Prospects

UN Reports and Resolutions

UN reports and resolutions; reports issued by special rapporteurs and commissions of inquiry or fact-finding missions; and advisory opinions, decisions or orders for preventive measures given by International Courts. 

UN Resolutions on Palestine and Israel (Database)

Business Enterprises involved in Israeli settlement activities (Database of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Commissions of Inquiry and Special Repporteurs

2025 - From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/59/23)

2024 - Genocide as Colonial Erasure - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/79/384)

2024 - Anatomy of a Genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 to Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/55/73)

2023 - Arbitrary detention - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/53/59)

2023 - Study on the Legality of the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem - United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/78/378).

2022 - Settler-colonialism - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/77/356).

2022 - Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet (A/HRC/49/85)

2021 - The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

2018 - The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2017 - Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid - UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley (E/ESCWA/ECRI/2017/1)

2014 - The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

2012 - International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2009 - United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict ("The Goldstone Report")

International Courts

2024-2025 - Orders for preventive measures to cease genocidal acts: Case 192 - Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) (International Court of Justice)

2023-2024 - Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (International Court of Justice)

2021 - "Situation in the State of Palestine” (International Criminal Court)

2004 - Legal Consequences of the Construction of the Wall in the oPt (International Court of Justice)


United Nations System

The United Nations in Palestine

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

UN Human Rights Council

NGO Action in the UN

Peace agreements

The Quartet (diplomacy)