I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1349 
To authorize assistance to Israel to establish an anti-tunneling defense system, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2015 
Ms. GRAHAM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize assistance to Israel to establish an anti- 
tunneling defense system, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Israel 
Anti-Tunnel Defense Cooperation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Is-
lamic Jihad are United States-designated terrorist 
organizations. 
(2) Designated Palestinian terrorist organiza-
tions have killed hundreds of Israelis and dozens of 
Americans in rocket attacks and suicide bombings. 
(3) Hamas has used underground tunnels to 
Israel and Egypt to smuggle weapons, money, and 
supplies into Gaza and to send members of Hamas 
out of Gaza for training and to bring trainers in to 
Gaza to teach Hamas how to manufacture rockets 
and build better tunnels. Tunnels in Gaza have also 
been used as underground rocket launching sites, 
weapons caches, bunkers, transportation networks 
and command and control centers. 
(4) In 2006, Hamas kidnapped Israeli soldier 
Gilad Shalit through a tunnel and held him for five 
years. 
(5) The Israel Defense Forces discovered 32 
tunnels during the conflict with Hamas in the sum-
mer of 2014, 14 of which crossed into Israel. 
(6) Hamas intentionally uses civilians as human 
shields by placing its underground tunnel network in 
densely populated areas and schools, hospitals, and 
mosques. 
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(7) Hamas’s placement of explosive material in 
its vast network of tunnels in Gaza has caused civil-
ian casualties through secondary and tertiary explo-
sions. 
(8) While the unemployment rate in Gaza is at 
38 percent, it is estimated that Hamas spends 
$3,000,000 per tunnel. 
(9) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- 
moon said he was ‘‘shocked by the tunnels used for 
the infiltration of terrorists’’. 
(10) Hamas has claimed to be rebuilding tun-
nels in Gaza after the war with Israel in the summer 
of 2014. 
(11) Hezbollah has used underground tunnels 
in southern Lebanon to move Hezbollah fighters and 
to launch attacks. 
(12) The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims to be 
digging new tunnels on the Gaza border. Israel has 
a right to defend itself from the violence of Pales-
tinian terrorist groups, including the violence that is 
facilitated through terrorist tunnel networks. 
(13) The United States is working cooperatively 
with the Government of Israel to develop tech-
nologies to detect and destroy tunnels penetrating 
the territory of Israel. 
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SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE TO ISRAEL TO ESTABLISH AN ANTI- 
TUNNELING DEFENSE SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President, upon request of 
the Government of Israel and acting through the Secretary 
of Defense and the Secretary of State, is authorized to 
carry out research, development, and test activities on a 
joint basis with Israel to establish an anti-tunneling de-
fense system to detect, map, and destroy underground 
tunnels from Gaza to the territory of Israel or other coun-
tries that share a border with Gaza. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—None of the funds authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this Act may be obligated 
or expended to carry out subsection (a) until the Presi-
dent, acting through the Secretary of Defense and the Sec-
retary of State, certifies to Congress the following: 
(1) The President has finalized a memorandum 
of understanding or other formal agreement between 
the United States and Israel regarding sharing of 
research and development costs for the system de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(2) The understanding or agreement— 
(A) requires sharing of costs of projects, 
including the cost of claims, between the United 
States and Israel on an equitable basis unless 
the President determines, on a case-by-case 
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