HRC63: The Human Impact of Israeli Settlements Across Palestine

The 63rd session of the Human Rights Council

07 September– 07 October 2026

Item 2&7: HC report on implementation of HRC res 31/36 followed by General Debate

29 September 2026

The Human Impact of Israeli Settlements Across Palestine

By Gaia Padalino / GICJ

 At the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) presented its report containing the list of business enterprises involved in the activities listed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact finding mission to investigate the implications of the illegal Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (A/HRC/22/63). The Annual Report by the High Commissioner (A/HRC/63/20) presented at the 63rd session is pursuant to resolutions A/HRC/53/25 and A/HRC/31/36, with which the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner to produce a yearly update of the list of business enterprises involved in the activities enumerated in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent fact finding mission. 

The report includes a database of business enterprises updated in the last report with an additional set of 126 businesses, which are involved in the listed illegal activities linked to the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Moreover, the High Commissioner analysed the various ways of involvement of the listed business enterprises in adverse human rights impacts in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, namely causation, contribution, and direct linkage. 

In the recommendations of the Annual Report, the High Commissioner affirmed the duty of business enterprises involved in the illegal activities to take appropriate action to cease or prevent the adverse impact on human rights and meet their own responsibility to respect human rights.