מקורות משפטיים מרכזיים

• סעיף 49 לאמנת ג'נבה:

 From the Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies

• חוות-הדעת המייעצת של בית הדין הבינלאומי לצדק בהאג:

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ Reports 2004 136 (ICJ Opinion) held that: "the Israeli settlements in the OPT (including East Jerusalem) have been established in breach of international law" (para. 120)

• החלטות והכרזות של מועצת הביטחון של האו"ם וכן של גופי או"ם אחרים:

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
UN SC Council Resolution 478
Security Council resolutions	UN SC Resolution 446 UN SC Resolution 465
UN Human Rights Committee General Comments on the civil and political rights violations caused by the settlement enterprise in the OPT:	U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.93 (1998): U.N. Doc. CCPR/CO/78/ISR (2003) U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/ISR/CO/3 (2010)
Opinions published by the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination on the impact of settlements	U.N. Doc. A/49/18, paras. 73-91 (1994) U.N. Doc. CERD/C/304/Add.45 (1998) U.N. Doc. CERD/C/ISR/CO/13 (2007) U.N. Doc. CERD/C/ISR/CO/14-16 (2012)
Reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the settlem	U.N. Doc. E/C.12/1/Add.27 (1998) U.N. Doc. E/C.12/1/Add.90 (2003) U.N. Doc. E/C.12/ISR/CO/3 (2011)
Reports of the Committee Against Torture on the settlements	U.N. Doc. A/49/44, paras. 159-171 (1994) U.N. Doc. A/53/44, paras. 232-242 (1998) U.N. Doc. CAT/C/XXVII/Concl.5 (2001) U.N. Doc. CAT/C/ISR/CO/4 (2009):
Reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the settlements in the OPT	U.N. Doc. A/60/38, paras. 221–268 (2005) U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/ISR/CO/5 (2011)