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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6060 

To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for 

programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled areas 

of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 25, 2023 

Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. WEBER of Texas, 

Mr. DESJARLAIS, Ms. BOEBERT, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, and Mr. 

MOORE of Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To prohibit any United States assistance from being made 

available for programs, projects, or activities located in 

Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria or 

Gaza, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defunding Israel’s En5 emies Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

7 It is the sense of Congress that— 

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1 (1) the brutal assault by Hamas and other Pal2 estinian terrorist groups against the State of Israel, 

3 beginning on October 7, 2023, constitutes a decades4 long continuation of efforts to irreparably undermine 

5 the sovereignty of the State of Israel; 

6 (2) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (re7 ferred to as the ‘‘IRGC’’), a paramilitary militant 

8 organization designated as a foreign terrorist organi9 zation on April 15, 2019, has been cited by Hamas 

10 as actively engaging in planning for the land, sea, 

11 and air invasions of the State of Israel, and as of 

12 October 15, 2023, at least 30 United States citizens 

13 are dead and at least 13 are missing as a result of 

14 these attacks; 

15 (3) on September 11, 2023, the Biden adminis16 tration chose to facilitate the transfer of 

17 $6,000,000,000 in funds to Tehran as part of a 

18 prisoner exchange, allowing the Iranian regime to 

19 potentially repurpose other funds for IRGC-sup20 ported terrorist activities; 

21 (4) on September 28, 2023, in contradiction of 

22 United States and Israeli security interests, 81 

23 Members of Congress voted against an amendment 

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1 lutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organi2 zation; 

3 (5) as Israelis work to defend their nation 

4 against an unprovoked and evil assault, it is essen5 tial to United States and Israeli security interests 

6 that United States-elected officials demonstrate un7 mitigated unity in support for Israel. To this end, 

8 the Biden administration should— 

9 (A) fully apply and preferably expand the 

10 funding limitation in the Taylor Force Act (22 

11 U.S.C. 2378c–1) to ensure that United States 

12 taxpayer dollars are not working against 

13 Israel’s heroic efforts; and 

14 (B) in tandem with partners overseas, en15 sure that the terrorist organizations waging war 

16 against Israel are regularly denied financing; 

17 (6) until such time as Israel’s enemies are fully 

18 defeated, no ally or partner of the United States 

19 should, either directly or indirectly, provide support 

20 for Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, the Pal21 estine Liberation Organization, and any successor or 

22 affiliated organizations, to include Hamas, the Pal23 estinian Islamic Jihad, and the Lions’ Den; 

24 (7) as President George W. Bush remarked be25 fore a joint session of Congress in September 2001, 

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1 ‘‘Every nation, in every region, now has a decision 

2 to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the 

3 terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that 

4 continues to harbor or support terrorism will be re5 garded by the United States as a hostile regime.’’; 

6 (8) several nations, including Saudi Arabia, 

7 Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Oman, and Kuwait 

8 have issued statements of condemnation against 

9 Israel. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also 

10 issued a statement that implicated Israel as ‘‘solely 

11 responsible for the ongoing escalation’’. In that 

12 statement, the Qataris specifically stressed their 

13 ‘‘unwavering stance on the justice of the Palestinian 

14 cause’’ and for the ‘‘international community to 

15 compel Israel to cease its blatant violation of inter16 national law’’; 

17 (9) nations that have historically benefitted 

18 from robust United States support should exercise 

19 extreme caution in undermining the United States 

20 greatest ally in the Middle East; 

21 (10) Israel has regularly and repeatedly offered 

22 the Palestinians their own state and the ability to 

23 live side-by-side in peace with their neighbors; 

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1 (11) the Palestinian people have largely re2 sponded to such overtures by attacking Israel’s right 

3 to exist; and 

4 (12) if Palestinian terrorists refuse to accept 

5 Israel’s right to exist, and instead continue to resort 

6 to the senseless murder of countless Israeli civilians, 

7 the only tenable solution is a one-state solution with 

8 Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of 

9 Israel. 

10 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ASSISTANCE TO THE JUDEA AND 

11 SAMARIA AREA AND GAZA. 

12 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Fed13 eral funds may be made available for any program, 

14 project, or activity located in any Palestinian-controlled 

15 area of Judea and Samaria or Gaza until the President 

16 of the United States, acting through the Secretary of 

17 State, certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional 

18 committees that those responsible for the October 2023 

19 attack against the State of Israel (including Hamas and 

20 Hezbollah) have agreed to a permanent cessation of hos21 tilities. 

22 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

23 In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com24 mittees’’ means— 

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1 (1) the Committee on Appropriations and the 

2 Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep3 resentatives; and 

4 (2) the Committee on Appropriations and the 

5 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 

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