It observed that “businesses play a central role in furthering the establishment, maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements” and said that they should consider whether it was possible to operate in such an environment in a manner that met their obligation to respect human rights.

The report was a result of a resolution passed by the Human Rights Council in March 2016 that called for a database detailing the companies engaged in a list of specified activities that directly enabled, supported or profited from Israeli settlements. Those activities included supplying construction machinery or materials, surveillance equipment and security services, as well as providing banking and financial services.

The 16-page report released Wednesday did not produce what critics of the initiative had feared would be a blacklist naming and shaming companies doing business with the settlements, but it still drew condemnation from the Trump administration and Israeli diplomats in New York and Geneva, who cited the report as proof of the Human Rights Council’s institutional bias.

President Trump’s United Nations ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who has vowed to combat what she has described as antipathy toward Israel in parts of the organization, strongly condemned the human rights office’s report.

“This whole issue is outside the bounds of the High Commissioner for Human Rights office’s mandate and is a waste of time and resources,” she said in a statement. “While we note that they wisely refrained from listing individual companies, the fact that the report was issued at all is yet another reminder of the Council’s anti-Israel obsession. The more the Human Rights Council does this, the less effective it becomes as an advocate against the world’s human rights abusers.”