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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6060 
To prohibit any United States assistance from being made available for 
programs, projects, or activities located in Palestinian-controlled areas 
of Judea and Samaria or Gaza, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 25, 2023 
Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. WEBER of Texas, 
Mr. DESJARLAIS, Ms. BOEBERT, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, and Mr. 
MOORE of Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit any United States assistance from being made 
available for programs, projects, or activities located in 
Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria or 
Gaza, 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 ‘‘Defunding Israel’s En-
emies Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
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(1) the brutal assault by Hamas and other Pal-
estinian terrorist groups against the State of Israel, 
beginning on October 7, 2023, constitutes a decades- 
long continuation of efforts to irreparably undermine 
the sovereignty of the State of Israel; 
(2) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (re-
ferred to as the ‘‘IRGC’’), a paramilitary militant 
organization designated as a foreign terrorist organi-
zation on April 15, 2019, has been cited by Hamas 
as actively engaging in planning for the land, sea, 
and air invasions of the State of Israel, and as of 
October 15, 2023, at least 30 United States citizens 
are dead and at least 13 are missing as a result of 
these attacks; 
(3) on September 11, 2023, the Biden adminis-
tration 
chose 
to 
facilitate 
the 
transfer 
of 
$6,000,000,000 in funds to Tehran as part of a 
prisoner exchange, allowing the Iranian regime to 
potentially repurpose other funds for IRGC-sup-
ported terrorist activities; 
(4) on September 28, 2023, in contradiction of 
United States and Israeli security interests, 81 
Members of Congress voted against an amendment 
to prohibit the use of funds to delist the Iran Revo-
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lutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organi-
zation; 
(5) as Israelis work to defend their nation 
against an unprovoked and evil assault, it is essen-
tial to United States and Israeli security interests 
that United States-elected officials demonstrate un-
mitigated unity in support for Israel. To this end, 
the Biden administration should— 
(A) fully apply and preferably expand the 
funding limitation in the Taylor Force Act (22 
U.S.C. 2378c–1) to ensure that United States 
taxpayer dollars are not working against 
Israel’s heroic efforts; and 
(B) in tandem with partners overseas, en-
sure that the terrorist organizations waging war 
against Israel are regularly denied financing; 
(6) until such time as Israel’s enemies are fully 
defeated, no ally or partner of the United States 
should, either directly or indirectly, provide support 
for Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, the Pal-
estine Liberation Organization, and any successor or 
affiliated organizations, to include Hamas, the Pal-
estinian Islamic Jihad, and the Lions’ Den; 
(7) as President George W. Bush remarked be-
fore a joint session of Congress in September 2001, 
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‘‘Every nation, in every region, now has a decision 
to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the 
terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that 
continues to harbor or support terrorism will be re-
garded by the United States as a hostile regime.’’; 
(8) several nations, including Saudi Arabia, 
Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Oman, and Kuwait 
have issued statements of condemnation against 
Israel. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also 
issued a statement that implicated Israel as ‘‘solely 
responsible for the ongoing escalation’’. In that 
statement, the Qataris specifically stressed their 
‘‘unwavering stance on the justice of the Palestinian 
cause’’ and for the ‘‘international community to 
compel Israel to cease its blatant violation of inter-
national law’’; 
(9) nations that have historically benefitted 
from robust United States support should exercise 
extreme caution in undermining the United States 
greatest ally in the Middle East; 
(10) Israel has regularly and repeatedly offered 
the Palestinians their own state and the ability to 
live side-by-side in peace with their neighbors; 
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(11) the Palestinian people have largely re-
sponded to such overtures by attacking Israel’s right 
to exist; and 
(12) if Palestinian terrorists refuse to accept 
Israel’s right to exist, and instead continue to resort 
to the senseless murder of countless Israeli civilians, 
the only tenable solution is a one-state solution with 
Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of 
Israel. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ASSISTANCE TO THE JUDEA AND 
SAMARIA AREA AND GAZA. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Fed-
eral funds may be made available for any program, 
project, or activity located in any Palestinian-controlled 
area of Judea and Samaria or Gaza until the President 
of the United States, acting through the Secretary of 
State, certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional 
committees that those responsible for the October 2023 
attack against the State of Israel (including Hamas and 
Hezbollah) have agreed to a permanent cessation of hos-
tilities. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(1) the Committee on Appropriations and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Appropriations and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
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