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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 798 

Affirming the votes of the eight countries including the United States opposing the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly resolution titled, ‘‘Health 

conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, 

and in the occupied Syrian Golan’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 24, 2016 

Mr. FLEMING (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ZELDIN, and Mr. BRENDAN F. 

BOYLE of Pennsylvania) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Affirming the votes of the eight countries including the 

United States opposing the Sixty-ninth World Health 

Assembly resolution titled, ‘‘Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, 

and in the occupied Syrian Golan’’. 

Whereas the World Health Assembly is the decisionmaking 

body of the World Health Organization and sets policies 

for the Organization; 

Whereas the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly adopted several resolutions, with topics spanning from the prevention 

and control of non-communicable diseases, ending childhood obesity, air pollution, and healthy aging; 


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•HRES 798 IH 

Whereas the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly adopted its 

only country-specific resolution requesting the DirectorGeneral ‘‘to report and make practical recommendations 

on the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan’’, at the next annual World Health Assembly; 

Whereas the resolution uniquely singles out the State of 

Israel, diverting resources from global health challenges 

towards a politically motivated agenda; 

Whereas seven nations joined the United States in condemning this resolution, Australia, Canada, Guatemala, 

Israel, Micronesia (Federated States of), Papua New 

Guinea, and Paraguay; 

Whereas the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly ignored the 

public health crisis caused by the violence in Syria, which 

has seen outbreaks of polio, leishmaniasis, and cholera, 

and where regime and associated forces have targeted 

medical facilities and providers, leaving Syrians with 

fewer places to access care; 

Whereas the State of Israel continues to provide medical care 

to Palestinians and facilitate workshops for Palestinian 

health care professionals; 

Whereas the Coordinator of Government Activities in the 

Territories Unit (COGAT) reported ‘‘over 190,000 entrances from the West Bank into Israel for Palestinians 

receiving medical treatment in Israel and their companions in 2015’’; 

Whereas Israel continues to treat Syrians fleeing the Syrian 

civil war in hospitals that Israel erected on its border 

with Syria for that purpose; 


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•HRES 798 IH 

Whereas the World Health Organization adopted similar 

country-specific and biased resolutions targeting Israel at 

the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly in 2014, and 

again at the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in 

2015; and 

Whereas the United States has consistently remained opposed 

to these resolutions noting that the resolutions are inconsistent ‘‘with the shared objective of a Health Assembly 

focused purely on public health that refrained from singling out countries on a political basis’’: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) affirms the votes of the eight countries in3 cluding the United States opposing the Sixty-ninth 

4 World Health Assembly resolution titled, ‘‘Health 

5 conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, in6 cluding east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian 

7 Golan’’; 

8 (2) urges the World Health Assembly to annul 

9 the aforementioned resolution; and 

10 (3) urges the World Health Organization to 

11 abide by their stated goals of leadership on critical 

12 health matters and cease engagement on matters of 

13 political nature. 

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