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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 951 

Condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 29, 2008 

Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. HENSARLING, and 

Ms. BERKLEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 

the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli 

civilians, and for other purposes. 

Whereas more than 4,000 rockets and mortar shells have 

been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and 

other terrorist organizations since Israeli forces withdrew 

from there in 2005; 

Whereas, since January 1, 2008, terrorists have fired more 

than 420 rockets and mortar shells into Israel; 

Whereas the near-daily rocket fire has been targeted primarily and intentionally at civilian communities in Israel, 

such as Sderot and Ashkelon, making life in such areas 

agonizing; 


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Whereas the terrorist rockets have hit homes, buildings, 

roads, power lines, and other such infrastructure in 

Israel; 

Whereas these rocket attacks have forced Israel to suffer dozens of casualties, hundreds of shock victims, thousands of 

traumatized children, and severe disruption of daily life; 

Whereas military intelligence reports indicate that the rockets 

used in the attacks on Israel are made in Iran and often 

smuggled into Gaza through Egypt; 

Whereas Haaretz has reported that no fewer than 1,650 

rockets and 6,000 bombs, as well as millions of bullets 

for light weapons and tons of potassium for manufacturing bombs, were smuggled into Gaza through Egypt in 

2007 alone; and 

Whereas the launching of the rockets by Hamas is made possible largely by technical expertise provided by the Iranian and Syrian Governments: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, 

3 the ongoing Iranian-enabled rocket attacks on Israeli 

4 civilians; 

5 (2) supports the sovereign right of the Govern6 ment of Israel to defend its territory and stop the 

7 rocket attacks on its citizens; 

8 (3) recognizes the difficult balance Israel faces 

9 as the competing pressures of being the primary 

10 supplier of numerous necessities for Palestinian civil11 ians, such as fuel, electricity, and medicine, even 


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1 while rockets are being fired at Israel from Pales2 tinian areas; 

3 (4) supports Palestinian civilians who reject 

4 Hamas and all forms of terrorism, desiring to live in 

5 peace with their Israeli neighbors; 

6 (5) places responsibility for launching the rock7 et attacks on Hamas and other terrorist organiza8 tions, such as Islamic Jihad, in Gaza; 

9 (6) regards these rocket attacks and the fos10 tering of terrorism in the Palestinian territories as 

11 direct hindrances to the peace process in the region; 

12 (7) recognizes that the rocket attacks against 

13 Israel would not be possible without the material 

14 support of the Governments of Iran and Syria; 

15 (8) calls on all nations, including Egypt, to take 

16 affirmative, transparent, verifiable steps to stop the 

17 flow of rockets and other terrorism-enabling mate18 rials (including human resources) to the Palestinian 

19 territories; and 

20 (9) reaffirms the strong and unyielding friend21 ship between the governments and the people of 

22 Israel and the United States. 

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