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  Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New
Jersey (Mrs. Watson Coleman).
  Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for
yielding me time.
  Our country was rightly shocked and horrified when over 150
schoolgirls were killed in the opening hours of our strikes on Iran. It
will be remembered as one of our darkest hours.
  As I stand here, over 253 children have been killed in Lebanon. Are
those lives no less a tragedy? Are we so callous as to believe that
when we provide intelligence, provide coordination, and green strikes,
that our responsibility for the results of that work ends there?
  We are not bystanders to the ongoing horror that is the war on
Lebanon. We have seen this before. High-ranking members of the Israeli
Government are threatening mass extermination of Lebanese civilians.
They are broadcasting their intentions just as they did in Gaza.
  This Congress did nothing to stop the horror that befell Gaza. This
Congress took bipartisan measures to let an ally commit genocide on the
Palestinian people in Gaza with our bombs, with our intelligence, and
with our tax dollars. We cannot feign ignorance here again.
  This resolution offers a very clear moral choice. It offers those who
failed to act in Gaza a chance to do something right now.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that we would all support this resolution.
  Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, as we look at the attacks that go on, where is it that
all of these Hezbollah terrorists--where is it that they hide? Where is
it that they choose to encamp themselves? In the middle of civilians,
on purpose.
  There is no desire at any point for any one civilian casualty in any
circumstance. I have seen it play out on the battlefields that I was a
part of. ``Regrettable'' is not a strong enough word. It is well beyond
regrettable every single time that anybody trying to live their life
becomes a victim of a catastrophic attack because of what they are
adjacent to: the terrorists that are surrounding their community.
  But that is exactly what Hezbollah does by design: embed themselves
into schools, embed themselves into places of worship, embed themselves
into the bedrock of any community that they can go forcefully take
over.
  That is the way that they operate with purpose and operate
specifically to create civilian casualties everywhere--civilian
casualties around them and civilian casualties around where they launch
their attacks. That is their MO.
  Mr. Speaker, as I look at Hezbollah, I look at, again, what are our
interests? We have labeled them and have designated them a foreign
terrorist organization. That has gone on since, I want to say, the mid-
1990s that they were designated a foreign terrorist organization.
  More than 60 countries across the globe, including the EU, the Arab
League, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, have all designated Hezbollah
as part of a terrorist organization. They are a scourge. They are a
direct arm of Iran, directly funded by Iran, receiving targets from
Iran, and receiving benefits from Iran when they hit targets that Iran
tells them to hit.
  Everything that can be done and the work that Israel is doing to
destroy this scourge is something that we should be supporting through
the training of the LAF and supporting through our intelligence
resources that are being offered.
  This bill is meant to drive a stake between allies. It is meant to
drive a wedge between allies. It is not meant to drive a stake into the
hearts of our enemies, into the hearts of terrorists. That is the
unfortunate part about it. It is meant to hurt our allies. It is not
meant to hurt terrorists. That is beyond regrettable on this floor.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 7 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Michigan (Ms. Tlaib), the sponsor of this resolution.
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, this week's vote is about immediately ending
all U.S. participation in the Israeli Government's violent assault
against the people of Lebanon.
  Over 4,200 people have been massacred since the start of the Israeli
apartheid regime's brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and territorial
expansion in Lebanon, and nearly 1,000 additional people have already
been killed since Congress refused to pass the Lebanon War Powers
Resolution earlier this month. That is 1,000 additional people in just
25 days.
  Over 4,200 beautiful souls have been taken from our Earth and from
their loved ones by U.S.-funded bombs and with operational and
targeting support from the U.S. military. Indiscriminate bombings
continue to this day. Children, medics, journalists, parents,
students--everyone wants to label them as Hezbollah, but they were
civilians. They were intentionally targeted.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a June 17 report from UNICEF
titled: ``Lebanon: 12 children killed, maimed daily, despite Hezbollah-
Israel truce.''