IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1147 
Demanding that the international community hold accountable those who 
perpetrated acts of sexual violence and sexual torture during and after 
the attack on the State of Israel on October 7, 2023. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2024 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Ms. LOIS 
FRANKEL of Florida, and Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs 
RESOLUTION 
Demanding that the international community hold account-
able those who perpetrated acts of sexual violence and 
sexual torture during and after the attack on the State 
of Israel on October 7, 2023. 
Whereas, on October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an 
unprovoked attack against the State of Israel, brutally 
murdering more than 1,200 innocent men, women, and 
children while injuring thousands more; 
Whereas, from January 29, 2024, to February 14, 2024, at 
the invitation of the Government of the State of Israel, 
United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary- 
General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG–SVC) 
Pramila Patten, along with technical experts, led an offi-
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•HRES 1147 IH 
cial visit to the State of Israel to gather information in 
order to verify allegations of sexual violence and sexual 
torture committed during and after the October 7 attack; 
Whereas the SRSG–SVC and technical experts conducted a 
total of 33 meetings with personnel from Israeli national 
institutions and visited the Israeli National Center of Fo-
rensic Medicine, the Shura military base, the morgue 
where bodies of victims have been transferred, and four 
locations attacked on October 7; 
Whereas the SRSG–SVC and technical experts reviewed more 
than 5,000 photographic images and approximately 50 
hours of footage of the October 7 attack and conducted 
confidential interviews with a total of 34 interviewees im-
pacted by the attack, including survivors, witnesses, re-
leased hostages, first responders, and health and service 
providers; 
Whereas the SRSG–SVC and technical experts were made 
aware that there are victims still undergoing treatment 
for the severe mental distress and trauma endured as a 
result of the sexual violence committed against them both 
during and after the October 7 attack; 
Whereas, on March 4, 2024, the SRSG–SVC released a re-
port containing the findings of the official visit; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
‘‘there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-re-
lated sexual violence occurred during the 7 October at-
tacks in multiple locations across Gaza periphery, includ-
ing rape and gang rape, in at least three locations’’, with 
most victims first being raped and then murdered; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
there are ‘‘accounts of individuals who witnessed at least 
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two incidents of rape of corpses of women’’ and other ac-
counts that describe ‘‘multiple murdered individuals, 
mostly women, whose bodies were found naked from the 
waist down, some totally naked, with some gunshots in 
the head and/or tied including with their hands bound be-
hind their backs and tied to structures such as trees or 
poles’’; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
there were multiple incidents of sexual violence, including 
the rape of multiple women, along Road 232, one of the 
main roads along which attendees of the Nova music fes-
tival and other locals fled during the October 7 attack; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
in Kibbutz Re’im, there were multiple incidents of sexual 
violence, including the rape of a woman outside of a 
bomb shelter, and two women were found on the floor 
naked inside a home with gunshot wounds to their heads; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
in Kibbutz Be’eri, credible information was received that 
bodies were ‘‘found naked and/or tied, and in one case 
gagged,’’ in destroyed houses and the surrounding area; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, first responders reported finding 
women naked with their hands tied behind their backs 
and with gunshot wounds to the head, indicating sexual 
violence and sexual torture; 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
at Nahal Oz military base, seven soldiers were discovered 
to have ‘‘gunshot wounds around the genitalia and/or 
buttocks’’; 
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•HRES 1147 IH 
Whereas, according to the report released by the SRSG–SVC, 
‘‘the mission team found clear and convincing informa-
tion that some [hostages taken to Gaza] have been sub-
jected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence 
including rape and sexualized torture and sexualized 
cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and it also has 
reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be 
ongoing’’; 
Whereas, despite the overwhelming evidence that sexual vio-
lence was committed during and after the October 7 at-
tack, the ‘‘visit [by the SRSG–SVC and technical ex-
perts] was neither intended nor mandated to be inves-
tigative in nature’’; and 
Whereas, under Article 34 of the Charter of the United Na-
tions, ‘‘The Security Council may investigate any dispute, 
or any situation which might lead to international friction 
or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether 
the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to en-
danger the maintenance of international peace and secu-
rity.’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls upon the United States to insist that 
the United Nations Security Council open an official 
investigation into the sexual violence and sexual tor-
ture committed during and after the attack on the 
State of Israel on October 7, 2023; and 
(2) demands that the international community 
hold accountable those who perpetrated acts of sex-
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•HRES 1147 IH 
ual violence and sexual torture during and after that 
attack. 
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