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(5) Hizballah maintains an armed military force 
within Lebanon’s sovereign territory in direct viola-
tion of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 
1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), thus preventing Leb-
anon from exerting its lawful control over its inter-
nationally recognized borders. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to consider 
the use of human shields by Hizballah as a gross violation 
of internationally recognized human rights, to officially 
and publicly condemn the use of innocent civilians as 
human shields by Hizballah, and to take effective action 
against those that engage in the grave breach of inter-
national law through the use of human shields. 
SEC. 4. UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL. 
The President should direct the United States Per-
manent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations Security Council to secure support for a 
resolution that would impose multilateral sanctions 
against Hizballah for its use of civilians as human shields. 
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SEC. 5. IDENTIFICATION OF FOREIGN PERSONS THAT ARE 
RESPONSIBLE FOR GROSS VIOLATIONS OF 
INTERNATIONALLY 
RECOGNIZED 
HUMAN 
RIGHTS BY REASON OF USE BY HIZBALLAH 
OF CIVILIANS AS HUMAN SHIELDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose sanc-
tions described in subsection (c) with respect to each per-
son on the list required under subsection (b). 
(b) LIST.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall transmit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a list of the following: 
(A) Each foreign person that the President 
determines, based on credible evidence, is a 
member of Hizballah, or acting on behalf of 
Hizballah, that is responsible for or complicit 
in, or responsible for ordering, controlling, or 
otherwise directing, the use of civilians as 
human shields. 
(B) Each foreign person, or agency or in-
strumentality of a foreign state, that the Presi-
dent determines has provided, attempted to pro-
vide, or significantly facilitated the provision of, 
material support to a person described in sub-
paragraph (A). 
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(2) UPDATES.—The President shall transmit to 
the appropriate congressional committees an update 
of the list required under paragraph (1) as new in-
formation becomes available. 
(c) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions to be 
imposed on a foreign person or an agency or instrumen-
tality of a foreign state on the list required under sub-
section (b) are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent 
necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
property and interests in property of the foreign per-
son or of such agency or instrumentality of a foreign 
state if such property or interests in property are in 
the United States, come within the United States, or 
are or come within the possession or control of a 
United States person. 
(2) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.— 
(A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 
alien who the Secretary of State or the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security determines is a 
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foreign person on the list required under sub-
section (b) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation to enter the United States; 
and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Any visa or other 
documentation issued to an alien who is a 
foreign person on the list required under 
subsection (b), regardless of when such 
visa or other documentation was issued, 
shall be revoked and such alien shall be de-
nied admission to the United States. 
(ii) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.—A rev-
ocation under clause (i)— 
(I) shall take effect immediately; 
and 
(II) shall automatically cancel 
any other valid visa or documentation 
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that is in the possession of the alien 
who is the subject of such revocation. 
(3) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that knowingly 
violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
causes a violation of regulations promulgated to 
carry out this section to the same extent that such 
penalties apply to a person that knowingly commits 
an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of such 
Act. 
(4) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The President may ex-
ercise all authorities provided to the President 
under sections 203 and 205 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1702 and 1704) for purposes of carrying out 
this section. 
(B) ISSUANCE
OF
REGULATIONS.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the President shall, promul-
gate regulations as necessary for the implemen-
tation of this section and the amendments made 
by this section. 
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