- 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
- 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)
- UN Security Council Resolutions: 242, 338, 446, 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 settlements: 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)
| United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 | |
| UN SC Council Resolution 478 | |
| Security Council resolutions | |
| 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): |
| 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) |
| Reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the settlem |
U.N. Doc. E/C.12/1/Add.27 (1998) |
| 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) |
| Reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the settlements in the OPT |