IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1537 
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, 2024 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. WILSON 
of South Carolina, Mrs. KIM of California, Mr. ALFORD, Mr. ALLRED, 
Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mr. BACON, Mr. BEAN of Florida, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. 
BERA, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. BROWN, 
Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. CARAVEO, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. CASE, Ms. 
CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCOR-
MICK, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COSTA, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. CREN-
SHAW, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. D’ESPOSITO, Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, 
Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. DUNN of Florida, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. FEENSTRA, 
Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. 
GALLEGO, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. GOLDEN of Maine, Mr. GOLDMAN of 
New York, Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of 
Texas, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mr. HOYER, Ms. 
HOYLE of Oregon, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACKSON of North Carolina, Mr. JACK-
SON of Illinois, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Mr. KEAN of New Jersey, Mr. KEATING, Mrs. KIGGANS of Vir-
ginia, Mr. KIM of New Jersey, Mr. KUSTOFF, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. 
LALOTA, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LATTA, Mr. LAWLER, Ms. LEE of Nevada, 
Mr. LIEU, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Ms. MAN-
NING, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MENG, Mr. MILLER of 
Ohio, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. 
MOORE of Utah, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. NICKEL, Mr. 
NORCROSS, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. 
PAPPAS, Mrs. PELTOLA, Mr. PENCE, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PEREZ, Ms. 
PETTERSEN, Mr. PFLUGER, Mr. PHILLIPS, Mr. POSEY, Mr. QUIGLEY, 
Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. RULLI, Mr. RUTHER-
FORD, Mr. RYAN, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. 
SCHOLTEN, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SHERMAN, 
Ms. SHERRILL, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. SOTO, Ms. 
SPANBERGER, Mr. STANTON, Ms. STEFANIK, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. STRICK-
LAND, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. SWALWELL, Mrs. SYKES, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. 
THANEDAR, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. TORRES 
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of California, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. TRONE, Mr. TURNER, Mr. 
VALADAO, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Mrs. WAGNER, 
Mr. WALTZ, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Ms. 
WILD, Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Ms. WIL-
SON of Florida, and Mr. YAKYM) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred 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. 
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 
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Americans and citizens of more than 40 countries, and 
destroyed and looted entire communities; 
Whereas 105 hostages were released in a negotiated hostage 
deal in November 2023, following mediation efforts led 
by the United States; 
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 7 American hostages: Edan Alex-
ander, Itay Chen, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Gadi Haggai, Ju-
dith Weinstein Haggai, Omer Neutra, and Keith Siegel; 
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 Hamas committed brutal acts of sexual violence, in-
cluding gang rape and sexual mutilation, and Israeli offi-
cials have gathered eyewitness testimony, video record-
ings, and forensic evidence proving these atrocities; 
Whereas released hostages have bravely come forward and 
confirmed they were victims of sexual assault and wit-
nessed the sexual abuse of fellow hostages while in cap-
tivity; 
Whereas, in March 2024, 5 months after October 7, 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 vio-
lence, including rape, sexualized torture, cruel, inhuman, 
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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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 and 
Syria; 
Whereas, since October 7, these Iranian proxy groups have 
fired thousands of rockets, mortars, antitank missiles, 
and explosive UAVs into Israel, and have attacked Amer-
ican and other allied servicemembers, bases, and ships in 
the Middle East region; 
Whereas, since October 8, Hezbollah has 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, Iran launched over 300 missiles and 
drones at Israel, the first ever direct attack against Israel 
launched from Iranian soil; 
Whereas the Administration worked with regional partners to 
counter Iran’s attack, and the Administration has de-
ployed military assets to the region to deter further ag-
gression from Tehran and its regional proxies; 
Whereas Congress passed and the United States Administra-
tion signed into law a supplemental aid package that pro-
vides crucial military resources and humanitarian aid; 
and 
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 
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physical assaults, vandalism, and harassment targeting 
Jews: 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 humanitarian aid 
reaches Palestinian noncombatants; 
(5) urges international organizations, like the 
United Nations and all nations across the globe, to 
unequivocally denounce this attack and the ongoing 
atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists and call 
for the immediate release of the hostages; and 
(6) strongly condemns and denounces all in-
stances of antisemitism globally, domestically, in-
cluding on college campuses and commits to con-
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