{"id":186386,"date":"2000-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=186386"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:04:08","slug":"auto-insert-186386","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-186386\/","title":{"rendered":"Cttee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Reports of Twenty-second to twenty-fourth sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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576.   The Committee, having considered the information provided to it by the Permanent Mission of Israel to the Office of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies at Geneva, in its note verbal dated 3 November 2000, in a letter dated 1 December 2000 and addressed to the Permanent Representative of Israel (annex X below), reminded the State party that its concluding observations requested the submission of additional information in time for the Committee’s twenty-fourth session . Further, the Committee emphasized that some of the additional information, especially the material concerning the occupied territories, was requested “in order to complete the State party’s initial report and thereby ensure full compliance with its reporting obligations”.<\/p><\/div>\n

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577.   In the light of all the circumstances, its concluding observations and the current crisis in Israel and the occupied territories, the Committee resolved at its twenty-fourth session to consider the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory at its twenty-fifth session, with a view to assisting the State party conform to its obligations under the Covenant. Accordingly, the Committee urged Israel to submit by 1 March 2001 up-to-date information on economic, social and cultural rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. This information should give particular attention to the issues concerning the occupied Palestinian territory that were identified in the concluding observations, as well as those mentioned in the Committee’s letter. The Committee decided to consider the additional information, and any other reliable material with which it is provided, on 4 May 2001. The Committee invited the State party to participate in this discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\t<\/span>The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights acknowledges receipt of the note verbale dated 3 November 2000 from the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva and notes that Israel’s second periodic report, including issues referred to and information requested by the Committee in its concluding observations dated 4 December 1998, a<\/u>\/ will be ready for submission no later than March 2001.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The Committee reminds the State party, however, that the concluding observations requested the submission of additional information in time for the Committee’s twenty-fourth session (13 November to 1 December 2000). Further, the Committee wishes to emphasize that some of the additional information, especially the material concerning the occupied territories, was requested “in order to complete the State party’s initial report and thereby ensure full compliance with its reporting obligations” (para. 258). Given the current crisis in Israel and the occupied territories, it is particularly unfortunate that Israel did not provide the additional information by the time requested.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>In this regard, the Committee notes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on her recent visit to the region (8-16 November 2000) (<\/span>E\/CN.4\/2001\/114<\/a>) and is deeply concerned by accounts that Israel’s recent actions in the occupied territories in violation of the international humanitarian law, have also resulted in the widespread and gross violations of Palestinians’ economic, social and cultural rights.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Among the reports that are of grave concern to the Committee, the following are highlighted: <\/p><\/div>\n

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