tion from the moment construction begins and are 
often demolished with little notice. 
(22) The United Nations Office for the Coordi-
nation for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported 
in January 2021 that during 2020, Israeli authori-
ties demolished or seized 851 structures across the 
West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 
1001 Palestinians as a result, including over 524 
children. This is the highest number of home 
demolitions since 2016. 
(23) OCHA noted that one of the major trends 
observed in 2020 was the increased use of military 
orders and other legislation, preventing or limiting 
the ability of Palestinians to legally challenge the 
targeting of their homes and sources of livelihood in 
Israeli courts. 
(24) OCHA reported in February 2021 that 53 
schools in the West Bank, which are attended by 
5,200 children, are subject to demolition orders 
issued by Israeli authorities. 
(25) Demolitions clearly and deliberately under-
mine the prospects for a just and lasting peace be-
tween Israel and the Palestinians and create oppres-
sive conditions that leave Palestinians with no other 
choice than to leave their homes and lands. 
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(26) Punitive demolitions function as an act of 
collective punishment against the families of sus-
pects or perpetrators and create insecurity in the 
surrounding communities. Though Israeli authorities 
maintain that punitive demolitions are a means of 
achieving security, Israel does not demolish the 
homes of Israelis who have committed crimes 
against Palestinians as part of its policy. 
(27) The restrictive and discriminatory Israeli 
planning regime undermines rights and guarantees 
in international human rights law and international 
humanitarian law and facilitates unlawful acts and 
policies, including destruction of property and forc-
ible transfer of civilians, expropriation of land and 
natural resources, illegal settlement expansion, and 
further annexation of Palestinian land. 
(28) Jewish-only settlements established by the 
Government of Israel in the occupied West Bank, in-
cluding East Jerusalem, have no legal validity and 
constitute a flagrant violation under international 
law and a major obstacle to the achievement of a 
just and lasting peace between Israel and the Pal-
estinians. 
(29) Unilateral annexation of any part of the 
occupied West Bank by the Government of Israel is 
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a flagrant violation of international law and a pro-
hibited act of aggression under Article 2(4) of the 
United Nations Charter. 
(30) Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of 
United States foreign assistance since World War II, 
receiving from the United States $146,000,000,000 
(current, or noninflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilat-
eral assistance and military funding. 
(31) In 2016, the United States and Israeli 
governments signed a new 10-year Memorandum of 
Understanding (MOU) on military assistance, cov-
ering fiscal year 2019 to fiscal year 2028. 
(32) Under the terms of the MOU, the United 
States pledges to provide $38,000,000,000 in mili-
tary assistance ($33,000,000,000 in Foreign Mili-
tary Financing grants plus $5,000,000,000 in mis-
sile defense appropriations) to Israel, replacing a 
previous $30,000,000,000, 10-year agreement that 
ran through fiscal year 2018. 
(33) The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2021 (Public Law 116–260), provides the following 
for Israel: 
(A) $3,300,000,000 in Foreign Military 
Financing (FMF), including $795,300,000 mil-
lion designated specifically for procurements in 
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Israel, commonly referred to as ‘‘offshore pro-
curements’’. 
(B) $5,000,000 in Migration and Refugee 
Assistance (MRA) for refugee resettlement. 
(C) Reauthorization of War Reserve Stock 
Allies-Israel (WRSA–I) through 2023. 
(D) $500,000,000 in missile defense, of 
which 
$73,000,000 
is 
for 
Iron 
Dome, 
$177,000,000 for David’s Sling, $77,000,000 
for Arrow 3, and $173,000,000 for Arrow 2. 
(34) The sale and export of United States-ori-
gin defense articles and defense services to foreign 
countries are governed by an extensive set of laws, 
regulations, policies, and procedures, including au-
thorizations and reporting requirements in both the 
National Defense Authorization Acts and in the 
State Department, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Acts. 
(35) Congress has authorized sales to the Gov-
ernment of Israel under the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151, et seq.) and the Arms Ex-
port Control Act of 1976 (22 U.S.C. 2751, et seq.). 
(36) The Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (22 
U.S.C. 271, et seq.) generally prohibits foreign coun-
tries from using funds made available under the Act 
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for procurement outside the United States. However, 
each year since 1991, varying amounts of FMF 
grants have been designated for offshore procure-
ments in Israel. 
(37) In 1991, the Government Accountability 
Office, formerly the General Accounting Office, 
issued a report to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate examining United States military 
funding to Israel, which specifically audited Israel’s 
expenditures for offshore procurements and assessed 
whether the executive branch had complied with leg-
islative requirements. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) actions by the Government of Israel in the 
occupied West Bank, including the detention and 
prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli 
military court system, the seizure, appropriation, 
and destruction of Palestinian property and forcible 
transfer of civilians, and further annexation of Pal-
estinian land in violation of international law and 
internationally recognized standards of human 
rights— 
(A) are contrary to the values of the Amer-
ican people and the efforts of the United States 
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SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, none of the funds authorized to be appro-
priated or otherwise made available for assistance to the 
Government of Israel may be obligated or expended for 
any of the following: 
(1) Supporting the military detention, interro-
gation, abuse, or ill treatment of Palestinian chil-
dren in violation of international humanitarian law 
or to support the use against Palestinian children of 
any of the following practices: 
(A) Torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrad-
ing treatment. 
(B) Physical violence, including restraint 
in stress positions. 
(C) Hooding, sensory deprivation, death 
threats, or other forms of psychological abuse. 
(D) Incommunicado detention or solitary 
confinement. 
(E) Administrative detention, or imprison-
ment without charge or trial, as described in 
section 2(10). 
(F) Arbitrary detention. 
(G) Denial of access to parents or legal 
counsel during interrogations. 
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(H) Confessions obtained by force or coer-
cion. 
(2) Supporting the seizure, appropriation, or 
destruction of Palestinian property and forcible 
transfer of civilians in the Israeli-controlled and oc-
cupied West Bank in violation of international hu-
manitarian law. 
(3) Deploying, or supporting the deployment of, 
personnel, training, services, lethal materials, equip-
ment, facilities, logistics, transportation, or any 
other activity to territory in the occupied West Bank 
to facilitate or support further unilateral annexation 
by Israel of such territory in violation of inter-
national humanitarian law. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—Not later than September 30, 
2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate one of the following 
with respect to the preceding fiscal year— 
(1) a certification that none of the funds obli-
gated or expended in the previous fiscal year for as-
sistance to the Government of Israel have been used 
by such Government to support personnel, training, 
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lethal materials, equipment, facilities, logistics, 
transportation, or any other activity that supports or 
is associated with any of the activities prohibited 
under subsection (a); or 
(2) a certification that funds obligated or ex-
pended in the previous fiscal year have supported or 
been associated with one or more activities prohib-
ited under subsection (a), along with a report de-
scribing in detail the amount of such funds used by 
the Government of Israel in violation of such sub-
section and each activity supported by such funds. 
SEC. 6. OVERSIGHT AND ADDITIONAL REPORTING. 
The Secretary of State shall include, in each report 
required under section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n)— 
(1) a description of the nature and extent of de-
tention, interrogation, abuse, or ill treatment of Pal-
estinian children by Israeli military forces or police 
in violation of international humanitarian law; 
(2) a description of the nature and extent of the 
seizure, appropriation, or destruction of Palestinian 
property in the Israeli-controlled and occupied West 
Bank by Israeli authorities in violation of inter-
national humanitarian law; and 
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(3) a description of the nature and extent of 
Israeli settlement activities, including an assessment 
of the compliance of the Government of Israel with 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 
(2016). 
SEC. 7. GAO REPORT ON ISRAEL’S EXPENDITURES FOR 
OFFSHORE PROCUREMENT. 
Not later than September 30, 2021, and annually 
thereafter, the Comptroller General shall prepare and sub-
mit to Congress a report that— 
(1) identifies the specific programs and items 
funds for offshore procurement in Israel have been 
allocated 
to, 
including 
specific 
armed 
forces 
branches, units, and contractors; 
(2) assesses executive branch compliance with 
legislative requirements governing offshore procure-
ments in Israel; 
(3) identifies, in detail, all end-use monitoring 
the Government of Israel is subject to with respect 
to United States-origin defense articles; and 
(4) analyzes the effects of offshore procure-
ments on Israel’s military budget and domestic econ-
omy since 1991, including an assessment of the 
manner and extent to which these funds have di-
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rectly or indirectly supported illegal Israeli settle-
ment activity in the occupied West Bank. 
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