IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 795 
Condemning the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and calling for Hamas 
and its leaders to immediately and unconditionally surrender and to 
release the hostages, including Americans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2025 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. WILSON 
of South Carolina, Mrs. KIM, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. VARGAS, 
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Geor-
gia, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. PETTERSEN, Mr. HOYER, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. GILLEN, Mr. LATIMER, Mr. 
BACON, Ms. LEE of Nevada, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. STANTON, 
Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. LIEU, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. WILLIAMS of 
Georgia, Mr. LANDSMAN, Ms. BROWN, Mr. PALLONE, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. 
MOSKOWITZ, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. RYAN, Mr. COSTA, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. 
SOTO, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. KEAN, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. LALOTA, Mr. 
YAKYM, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Ms. SHERRILL, Mr. MAGAZINER, Mr. 
VINDMAN, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. 
TORRES of New York, Mr. COHEN, Ms. SCHRIER, Ms. MENG, Mr. 
MOOLENAAR, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. 
SCHNEIDER, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, 
Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. FIGURES, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. CASE, Mr. LEVIN, 
and Mr. MENENDEZ) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and 
calling for Hamas and its leaders to immediately and 
unconditionally surrender and to release the hostages, 
including Americans. 
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•HRES 795 IH 
Whereas Hamas is designated by the United States as a for-
eign terrorist organization, with a founding charter that 
calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and the 
mass murder of Jews; 
Whereas, since its creation, Hamas terrorists have repeatedly 
attacked Israel, including through bombings, shootings, 
rocket attacks, and kidnappings; 
Whereas Hamas has reignited multiple wars with Israel and 
has fired thousands of rockets directly at civilians in 
Israeli cities and towns; 
Whereas Hamas uses civilian infrastructure such as schools, 
hospitals, and homes for their military operations, inten-
tionally using civilians as human shields; 
Whereas, on October 7, 2023, Hamas violated an existing 
cease-fire, and with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, other ter-
rorist groups, and Gaza civilians infiltrated Israel, in-
vaded Israeli towns, launched thousands of rockets into 
Israel, brutally murdered, raped, and burned alive more 
than 1,200 individuals, took 251 hostages, including 
Americans and citizens of more than 40 countries, and 
destroyed and looted entire communities; 
Whereas, on October 7, Hamas committed brutal acts of sex-
ual violence, including gang rape and sexual mutilation, 
and the United Nation’s Special Representative of the 
Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and her 
team found ‘‘clear and convincing information that sexual 
violence, including rape, sexualized torture, cruel, inhu-
man, and degrading treatment has been committed 
against hostages’’; 
Whereas a senior Hamas official openly promised a ‘‘second, 
third, fourth’’ October 7-style attack against Israel; 
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•HRES 795 IH 
Whereas, even today, Hamas continues to fire rockets, includ-
ing from within designated humanitarian zones, into 
Israel and uses civilians as human shields; 
Whereas Israel, like other sovereign states, has a right to de-
fend herself from terrorist organizations and others who 
seek its destruction and annihilation, such as Iranian- 
backed proxies, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic 
Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and militias in Iraq; 
Whereas, since October 7, Iranian proxy groups have fired 
thousands of rockets, mortars, antitank missiles, and ex-
plosive unmanned aerial vehicles into Israel, and have at-
tacked American and other allied servicemembers, bases, 
and ships in the middle east region; 
Whereas, since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah fired thousands of 
rockets into northern Israel and forced the mass displace-
ment of Israeli civilians from the country’s north; 
Whereas, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched over 300 missiles 
and drones at Israel, the first ever direct attack against 
Israel launched from Iranian soil; 
Whereas the military of the United States worked with re-
gional partners to counter Iran’s attack, and both the 
Biden and Trump administrations have deployed military 
assets to the region to deter further aggression from 
Tehran and its regional proxies; 
Whereas, on October 16, 2024, Israeli forces killed Hamas 
leader and the chief planner of the October 7 attacks, 
Yahya Sinwar during fighting in Rafah, Gaza; 
Whereas, in November 2024, following intense fighting that 
significantly diminished Hezbollah’s operational strength, 
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire and the Leba-
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•HRES 795 IH 
nese Armed Forces began disarming Hezbollah forces in 
Southern Lebanon; 
Whereas, in June 2025, Israel launched a military operation 
to degrade Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, 
leading to multiple reciprocal attacks across Israel and 
Iran, including strikes on Tehran and Tel Aviv; 
Whereas, on June 22, 2025, United States forces conducted 
strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, 
and Isfahan, setting back Iran’s nuclear program; 
Whereas, on June 24, 2025, Israel and Iran agreed to a 
cease-fire agreement, mediated by the United States, end-
ing direct hostilities; 
Whereas the United States Government and regional partners 
have worked to end hostilities in the region and return 
all the hostages; 
Whereas 105 hostages were released in a negotiated hostage 
deal in November 2023, following mediation efforts led 
by the United States; 
Whereas further negotiations led to an additional 3-month 
cease-fire starting on January 25, 2025, where 34 hos-
tages were released, including Americans Keith Siegel 
and Sagui Dekel-Chen, and hostages determined to have 
been murdered in captivity, including 4-year-old Ariel 
Bibas, 9-month-old Kfir Bibas, and their mother Shiri 
Bibas; 
Whereas additional efforts led by the Biden and Trump ad-
ministrations resulted in the release of American Edan 
Alexander in May 2025; 
Whereas, in June 2025, Israeli forces recovered the bodies of 
Gadi Haggai and Judith Weinstein Haggai, who were 
murdered on October 7, 2023, at Kibbutz Nir Oz and 
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•HRES 795 IH 
whose bodies had been held in hostage since the start of 
the conflict; 
Whereas Hamas killed more than 40 Americans on and after 
October 7, including murdering Hersh Goldberg-Polin 
who spent more than 300 days in captivity as a hostage; 
Whereas Hamas still holds 48 hostages, including 2 Ameri-
cans: Itay Chen and Omer Neutra; 
Whereas Hamas refuses to allow humanitarian organizations, 
such as the International Committee of the Red Cross to 
visit and provide medical care to the hostages; 
Whereas the United States and regional partners have pro-
vided humanitarian aid to civilians through various mech-
anisms to keep assistance out of the hands of Hamas; 
Whereas, in the aftermath of Hamas October 7 terrorist at-
tacks, there has been a worldwide surge in antisemitism, 
impacting Jewish communities globally, including rising 
physical assaults, vandalism, and harassment targeting 
Jews; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2024, hundreds of Jewish soccer 
supporters were attacked in Amsterdam by masked mobs 
in a coordinated attack; 
Whereas, on May 21, 2025, 2 individuals who worked at the 
Israeli Embassy, American Sarah Milgrim and German- 
Israeli Yaron Lischinsky, were shot and killed outside the 
Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, by alleged 
attacker Elias Rodriguez, who witnesses noted after the 
shooting held up a keffiyeh and said, ‘‘I did this for 
Gaza, free Palestine’’ and further as the suspect was 
taken into custody, shouted ‘‘free, free Palestine’’; 
Whereas, on June 1, 2025, alleged attacker Mohamed Sabry 
Soliman threw 2 lit Molotov cocktails at individuals par-
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•HRES 795 IH 
ticipating in a peaceful gathering in Boulder, Colorado, 
calling attention to the hostages held in Gaza; and 
Whereas the attack resulted in 15 individuals being injured, 
and the death of Karen Diamond, who died of severe in-
juries that she suffered in the attack: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the atrocities committed by 
Hamas on October 7, the deadliest day for the Jew-
ish people since the Holocaust, and those that con-
tinue to be perpetrated by the terrorist organization, 
including the use of sexual violence as a tool of war; 
(2) calls for Hamas to immediately surrender, 
cease its attacks against Israel, and release all re-
maining hostages; 
(3) reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense from 
threats and terrorist organizations that seek her de-
struction; 
(4) commits to ensuring that vital humanitarian 
aid reaches Palestinian noncombatants; 
(5) urges international organizations, like the 
United Nations and all nations across the globe, to 
unequivocally denounce the ongoing atrocities com-
mitted by Hamas terrorists and call for the imme-
diate release of the hostages; and 
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•HRES 795 IH 
(6) strongly condemns and denounces all in-
stances of antisemitism globally, domestically, in-
cluding in K–12 schools and on college campuses 
and commits to confronting and combating this ha-
tred in all its forms and at every level. 
Æ 
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