The International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements was a United Nations fact-finding mission created in March 2012 by the Human Rights Council, an agency of the United Nations, to "investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
[2] Following a public call for submissions from interested parties, including representatives of Israeli settler communities, the mission received information from governments, inter-governmental organisations, international and national NGOs, professional bodies, academics, victims, witnesses and the media.
The report states Israel commits a multitude of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people and calls for nations and businesses to abide by the international legal regulations.
The UN Human Rights Council's call for sanctions against Israel is crucial because it clearly expresses the idea that the settlement enterprise leads to "ethnic cleansing" in the West Bank.
"[6] In a similar spirit, UN Watch, an Israel-affiliated[7] non-governmental organisation, described the report as "categorically one-sided, casting Palestinians as the sole victims of the Arab–Israeli conflict, while denying the slightest consideration to any basic human rights for Israelis.