IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 876 
Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2025 
Ms. TLAIB (for herself, Ms. BALINT, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CASAR, Ms. DEXTER, 
Mr. FROST, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Ms. JAYAPAL, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. POCAN, Ms. 
PRESSLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. SIMON, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mrs. WAT-
SON COLEMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. 
Whereas the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 
of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) was 
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on De-
cember 9, 1948; 
Whereas the United States played a key role in drafting the 
Genocide Convention, ratified the convention on Novem-
ber 5, 1988, and remains a party to the convention 
today; 
Whereas, under the Genocide Convention, the crime of geno-
cide is committed when one or more categories of under-
lying acts are committed with intent to destroy, in whole 
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or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group 
as such, namely— 
(1) killing members of the group; 
(2) causing serious bodily or mental harm to mem-
bers of the group; 
(3) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of 
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in 
whole or in part; 
(4) imposing measures intended to prevent births 
within the group; or 
(5) forcibly transferring children of the group to an-
other group; 
Whereas the Genocide Convention obligates all state parties, 
including the United States, to prevent and punish the 
crime of genocide; 
Whereas the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 
1987 (also known as the ‘‘Proxmire Act’’) was passed by 
Congress and signed into law in 1988, establishing the 
criminal offense of genocide within the United States 
Code; 
Whereas the United Nations Independent International Com-
mission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 
including East Jerusalem, and Israel concluded on Sep-
tember 16, 2025, that the State of Israel has committed 
and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestin-
ians in Gaza; 
Whereas the International Association of Genocide Scholars, 
the world’s leading subject matter experts on genocide, 
concluded that the State of Israel has committed geno-
cide against Palestinians in Gaza; 
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Whereas highly respected international, Palestinian, and 
Israeli human rights organizations such as Amnesty 
International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without 
Borders, Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human 
Rights, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, B’Tselem, 
Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the Lemkin Insti-
tute for Genocide Prevention, Forensic Architecture, and 
the University Network for Human Rights have con-
cluded that the State of Israel has committed genocide 
against Palestinians in Gaza; 
Whereas the overwhelming evidence is clear that the State of 
Israel has committed acts (actus reus) within the scope 
of the Genocide Convention against Palestinians in Gaza, 
including by— 
(1) killing members of the group; 
(2) causing serious bodily or mental harm to mem-
bers of the group; 
(3) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of 
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in 
whole or in part; and 
(4) imposing measures intended to prevent births 
within the group; 
Whereas the Israeli military has killed at least 67,160 Pal-
estinians in Gaza, the majority of whom are women and 
children, since October 2023; 
Whereas existing evidence and expert analysis indicate that 
this death toll is likely a severe undercount, with thou-
sands more Palestinians buried under the rubble and 
countless more dead as a result of siege, forced starva-
tion, and the systematic destruction of civil, water, and 
health infrastructure; 
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Whereas the Israeli military’s own data, as of May 2025, in-
dicates that 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Gaza 
were civilians; 
Whereas the Israeli military has wounded at least 169,679 
Palestinians in Gaza, creating the largest cohort of child 
amputees in modern history; 
Whereas doctors treating patients in Gaza, including doctors 
from the United States, have routinely treated children 
shot in the head or chest; 
Whereas, according to UNICEF, nearly all of Gaza’s 
1,200,000 children need mental health and psychosocial 
support, especially those exposed to repeated traumatic 
events, those who have been maimed, those who have lost 
parents, siblings, and close family members, and those 
with disabilities; 
Whereas over 500 schools and every university in Gaza have 
been destroyed or severely damaged by Israeli forces, sys-
tematically destroying the education system; 
Whereas at least 53 percent of cultural heritage sites in Gaza 
have been systematically destroyed or damaged, including 
hundreds of mosques and churches; 
Whereas at least 250 journalists and media workers have 
been killed by the Israeli military, many of them directly 
targeted for their work; 
Whereas 78 percent of all structures in Gaza have been de-
stroyed or severely damaged, including 92 percent of all 
residential buildings, as well as 77 percent of Gaza’s 
roads; 
Whereas at least 1,900,000 people, around 90 percent of 
Gaza’s population, have been forcibly displaced from their 
homes, most of them multiple times, often forced to live 
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in unsanitary and inhumane conditions, and whereas flee-
ing civilians have been targeted and killed along evacu-
ation routes and in shelters designated by Israeli authori-
ties as safe zones; 
Whereas the capacity for agriculture and food production has 
been decimated and just 1.5 percent of cropland remains 
accessible, undamaged, and suitable for cultivation; 
Whereas, since October 9, 2023, the Israeli Government’s 
blockade and siege of Gaza has cut off essential, life-
saving resources, blocking nearly all food, baby formula, 
and humanitarian aid from entry and severely restricting 
access to clean water, fuel, and electricity; 
Whereas, as a result of the siege, more than 90 percent of 
the population in Gaza has been facing acute food insecu-
rity since December 2023, and whereas since August 
2025, over 500,000 people are experiencing famine and 
catastrophic levels of food insecurity, with at least 455 
recorded malnutrition-related deaths; 
Whereas, by August 2025, the Israeli Government’s siege and 
forced starvation left more than 54,600 children under 5 
in Gaza acutely malnourished and more than 12,800 se-
verely malnourished, with around 16 percent of children 
in Gaza aged 6 months to just under 5 years suffering 
from a life-threatening type of malnutrition known as 
acute wasting, including nearly 4 percent with severe 
wasting, facing increased risk of death if untreated; 
Whereas, since the establishment of militarized food distribu-
tion sites on May 27, 2025, Israeli forces and armed pri-
vate contractors have shot and killed at least 2,340 des-
perate Palestinians seeking food assistance; 
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Whereas the Israeli military has killed at least 543 aid work-
ers, including personnel of the United Nations, Doctors 
Without Borders, World Central Kitchen, and the Pal-
estine Red Crescent Society; 
Whereas the health care system of Gaza has been systemati-
cally destroyed, with the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals 
leaving only 1 field hospital remaining fully functional, 
with at least 1,581 doctors, nurses, and other health 
workers killed by Israeli forces, and with at least 180 
documented attacks on ambulances; 
Whereas the bodies of Palestinian paramedics and rescue 
workers killed by Israeli forces were found zip-tied with 
gunshot wounds to the head and chest buried in a mass 
grave; 
Whereas the destruction of Gaza’s health care, sanitation, 
housing, and water infrastructure has significantly con-
tributed to the outbreak, rapid spread, and increased 
mortality of infectious and communicable diseases, in-
cluding hepatitis A, dysentery, typhoid, scabies, and 
acute respiratory infection; 
Whereas the decimation of the health care system, including 
reproductive and sexual health care, as well as the siege’s 
impact on the availability of food, medicine, baby for-
mula, and clean drinking water, have had a particularly 
harmful effect on pregnant, postpartum, and lactating 
women, infants, and the overall fertility and reproductive 
prospects of the population; 
Whereas a targeted Israeli attack destroyed the Al-Basma 
IVF clinic, the largest fertility center in Gaza, elimi-
nating around 4,000 embryos and 1,000 sperm samples 
and unfertilized eggs; 
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Whereas Israeli forces have killed at least 1,009 infants 
under the age of 1, including 450 babies who were both 
born and killed since October 2023; 
Whereas, by September 2024, overall life expectancy in Gaza 
suffered a drastic decrease of 34.9 years or 46.3 percent 
of preinvasion life expectancy, with researchers noting the 
actual losses are likely higher if the indirect effects of the 
war on mortality are considered; 
Whereas a clear pattern of statements made by Israeli au-
thorities, including but not limited to Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, former 
Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, current Minister of 
Defense Israel Katz, Minister of National Security 
Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Minister of Finance Bezalel 
Smotrich, provides direct evidence of genocidal intent 
(mens rea), as demonstrated by such examples as— 
(1) then-Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant 
stating on October 9, 2023, ‘‘We are imposing a complete 
siege on the Gaza Strip. No electricity, no food, no water, 
no fuel—everything is closed. We are fighting human ani-
mals, and we act accordingly’’; 
(2) Coordinator of Government Activities in the Ter-
ritories (COGAT) Major General Ghassan Alian an-
nouncing on October 10, 2023, that ‘‘Israel has imposed 
a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just 
damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell’’; 
(3) then-Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastruc-
ture and now Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz 
stating on October 11, 2023, that ‘‘we decided to stop 
the flow of water, electricity and fuel and now their local 
power station has collapsed and there is no electricity in 
Gaza’’; 
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(4) Israeli President Isaac Herzog stating on Octo-
ber 13, 2023, that ‘‘It’s an entire nation out there that 
is responsible. It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians 
who were aware and not involved. It is absolutely not 
true’’; 
(5) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu writing a let-
ter to Israeli soldiers and commanders on November 3, 
2023, saying, ‘‘Remember what Amalek did to you. We 
remember and we fight’’, a reference to the Book of Sam-
uel, in which God tells the Israelites, ‘‘Now go and attack 
Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not 
spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and in-
fant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey’’, rhetoric that has 
since been repeatedly echoed by other government offi-
cials, including Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich 
who stated in April 2024 that ‘‘There are no half meas-
ures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat—total annihilation. 
‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from 
under heaven’—there’s no place under heaven’’; 
(6) Colonel Erez Eshel stating on November 4, 
2023, that ‘‘It will take so many years to revive from this 
blow . . . this place will be a fallow land. They will not 
be able to live here’’; and 
(7) a recording of Major General Aharon Haliva, 
head of Israel’s Military Intelligence until April 2024, 
published on August 15, 2025, in which he stated that 
‘‘the fact that 50,000 have already been killed in Gaza 
is necessary and required for future generations . . . it 
does not matter if they are children. I’m not speaking out 
of revenge. I’m talking about a message for future gen-
erations. From time to time, they need a Nakba to feel 
the cost’’, referring to the violent ethnic cleansing of over 
750,000 Palestinians from their homes and homeland by 
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Zionist militias and the Israeli army during the establish-
ment of the State of Israel in 1947 to 1949; 
Whereas the International Criminal Court issued arrest war-
rants on November 21, 2024, for Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of De-
fense Yoav Gallant, charging both with the war crimes of 
starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally di-
recting an attack against a civilian population, as well as 
the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and 
other inhumane acts; 
Whereas the United States became a party to the Statute of 
the International Court of Justice when it ratified the 
United Nations Charter in 1945 and remains a party to 
the Statute today; 
Whereas the International Court of Justice ordered binding 
provisional measures in the case Application of the Con-
vention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime 
of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) on 
January 26, 2024, on March 28, 2024, and on May 24, 
2024, requiring specific actions from the State of Israel 
to prevent the commission of acts within the scope of the 
Genocide Convention; 
Whereas, through these provisional measures, the Inter-
national Court of Justice put all third states on notice of 
a serious risk that genocide was being or would be com-
mitted; 
Whereas the United Nations Independent International Com-
mission of Inquiry found that the State of Israel has 
acted in flagrant disregard of the International Court of 
Justice’s binding orders; 
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Whereas, between October 2023 and September 2025, the 
United States provided an estimated $21,700,000,000 in 
military aid to Israel, and during that same period, the 
White House authorized or notified over $30,000,000,000 
in additional new arms sales agreements to be paid for 
and delivered in future years; and 
Whereas the United Nations Independent International Com-
mission of Inquiry, having concluded that the State of 
Israel has committed and is continuing to commit geno-
cide against Palestinians in Gaza, called on all countries 
to fulfill their legal obligations to prevent and punish the 
crime of genocide, and laid out concrete steps for third 
states, such as the United States, to take to meet these 
binding obligations: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that it is the policy of the United States to— 
(1) prevent and punish the crime of genocide, 
wherever it occurs; 
(2) officially recognize that the State of Israel 
has committed the crime of genocide against the 
Palestinian people in Gaza; 
(3) respect the United States binding legal obli-
gations as a party to the Genocide Convention and 
under customary international law to prevent and 
punish the crime of genocide in Gaza, employing all 
means reasonably available, including by— 
(A) ceasing the transfer of arms and other 
equipment or items to the State of Israel or 
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third states where there is reason to suspect 
their use in military operations that have in-
volved or could involve the commission of geno-
cide; 
(B) ensuring that the State of Israel duly 
implements all provisional measures ordered by 
the International Court of Justice since Janu-
ary 26, 2024; 
(C) ensuring that individuals and corpora-
tions in the United States and within United 
States jurisdiction are not involved in the com-
mission of genocide, aiding and assisting the 
commission of genocide, or incitement to com-
mit genocide, and investigating and prosecuting 
those who may be implicated in these crimes 
under international law; 
(D) facilitating investigations and domestic 
proceedings and taking action, including impos-
ing targeted, lawful sanctions, with respect to 
the State of Israel and individuals or corpora-
tions that are involved in or facilitating the 
commission of genocide or incitement to commit 
genocide; and 
(E) cooperating with the investigation of 
the Office of the Prosecutor of the International 
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Criminal Court (ICC) and lifting all ICC-re-
lated United States sanctions; 
(4) use the United States voice and vote in the 
United Nations Security Council and the United Na-
tions General Assembly to advance efforts to prevent 
and punish the crime of genocide in Gaza; and 
(5) ensure that the United Nations Relief and 
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near 
East (UNRWA) is robustly funded to meet the ur-
gent humanitarian needs of Palestinians facing 
genocide in Gaza. 
Æ 
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