Palestine and Israel: Legacies and Prospects

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)

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)