Summary

The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories is composed of three Member States: Sri Lanka (Chair), Malaysia and Senegal.

After postponing its field visit initially scheduled for June, then August, to November 2006, owing to the prevailing situation in the region, the Special Committee was finally able to visit Egypt from 11 to 15 November, Jordan from 15 to 18 November and the Syrian Arab Republic from 18 to 22 November 2006. The present report is an addendum to its thirty-eighth report submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session (A/61/500) and is based essentially on the testimonies gathered from witnesses with a first-hand knowledge of the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and in the occupied Syrian Golan.

Sections IV and V of the report provide an update on the human rights situation in the occupied territories and in the occupied Syrian Golan, respectively, while section VI presents the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Committee to the General Assembly.

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