[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 795 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 795
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.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 8, 2025
Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Wilson of
South Carolina, Mrs. Kim, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Vargas, Mr.
Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Panetta, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms.
Stevens, Ms. Pettersen, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Conaway,
Mr. Sherman, Ms. Gillen, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Lee of Nevada, Ms.
Budzinski, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Stanton, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Lieu, Mr.
Auchincloss, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Brown, Mr.
Pallone, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Costa,
Ms. Brownley, Mr. Soto, Ms. Craig, Mr. Kean, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr.
LaLota, Mr. Yakym, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Magaziner, Mr.
Vindman, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Mr. Ciscomani, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Torres of
New York, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Schrier, Ms. Meng, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Bishop,
Mr. Norcross, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. Schneider, Mrs. Torres of California,
Mr. Goldman of New York, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Figures, Mr. Horsford, Mr.
Case, Mr. Levin, and Mr. Menendez) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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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 foreign 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, intentionally using civilians as human
shields;
Whereas, on October 7, 2023, Hamas violated an existing cease-fire, and with
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, other terrorist groups, and Gaza civilians
infiltrated Israel, invaded Israeli towns, launched thousands of rockets
into Israel, brutally murdered, raped, and burned alive more than 1,200
individuals, took 251 hostages, including Americans and citizens of more
than 40 countries, and destroyed and looted entire communities;
Whereas, on October 7, Hamas committed brutal acts of sexual violence, including
gang rape and sexual mutilation, and 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
violence, 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;
Whereas, even today, Hamas continues to fire rockets, including from within
designated humanitarian zones, into Israel and uses civilians as human
shields;
Whereas Israel, like other sovereign states, has a right to defend 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;
Whereas, since October 7, Iranian proxy groups have fired thousands of rockets,
mortars, antitank missiles, and explosive unmanned aerial vehicles into
Israel, and have attacked American and other allied servicemembers,
bases, and ships in the middle east region;
Whereas, since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into
northern Israel and forced the mass displacement of Israeli civilians
from the country's north;
Whereas, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched over 300 missiles and drones at
Israel, the first ever direct attack against Israel launched from
Iranian soil;
Whereas the military of the United States worked with regional partners to
counter Iran's attack, and both the Biden and Trump administrations have
deployed military assets to the region to deter further aggression from
Tehran and its regional proxies;
Whereas, on October 16, 2024, Israeli forces killed Hamas leader and the chief
planner of the October 7 attacks, Yahya Sinwar during fighting in Rafah,
Gaza;
Whereas, in November 2024, following intense fighting that significantly
diminished Hezbollah's operational strength, Israel and Hezbollah agreed
to a cease-fire and the Lebanese Armed Forces began disarming Hezbollah
forces in Southern Lebanon;
Whereas, in June 2025, Israel launched a military operation to degrade Iran's
nuclear and ballistic missile programs, leading to multiple reciprocal
attacks across Israel and Iran, including strikes on Tehran and Tel
Aviv;
Whereas, on June 22, 2025, United States forces conducted strikes on Iranian
nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, setting back Iran's
nuclear program;
Whereas, on June 24, 2025, Israel and Iran agreed to a cease-fire agreement,
mediated by the United States, ending direct hostilities;
Whereas the United States Government and regional partners have worked to end
hostilities in the region and return all the hostages;
Whereas 105 hostages were released in a negotiated hostage deal in November
2023, following mediation efforts led by the United States;
Whereas further negotiations led to an additional 3-month cease-fire starting on
January 25, 2025, where 34 hostages were released, including Americans
Keith Siegel and Sagui Dekel-Chen, and hostages determined to have been
murdered in captivity, including 4-year-old Ariel Bibas, 9-month-old
Kfir Bibas, and their mother Shiri Bibas;
Whereas additional efforts led by the Biden and Trump administrations resulted
in the release of American Edan Alexander in May 2025;
Whereas, in June 2025, Israeli forces recovered the bodies of Gadi Haggai and
Judith Weinstein Haggai, who were murdered on October 7, 2023, at
Kibbutz Nir Oz and whose bodies had been held in hostage since the start
of the conflict;
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 48 hostages, including 2 Americans: Itay Chen and Omer
Neutra;
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 the United States and regional partners have provided humanitarian aid
to civilians through various mechanisms to keep assistance out of the
hands of Hamas;
Whereas, in the aftermath of Hamas October 7 terrorist attacks, there has been a
worldwide surge in antisemitism, impacting Jewish communities globally,
including rising physical assaults, vandalism, and harassment targeting
Jews;
Whereas, on November 7, 2024, hundreds of Jewish soccer supporters were attacked
in Amsterdam by masked mobs in a coordinated attack;
Whereas, on May 21, 2025, 2 individuals who worked at the Israeli Embassy,
American Sarah Milgrim and German-Israeli Yaron Lischinsky, were shot
and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, by
alleged attacker Elias Rodriguez, who witnesses noted after the shooting
held up a keffiyeh and said, ``I did this for Gaza, free Palestine'' and
further as the suspect was taken into custody, shouted ``free, free
Palestine'';
Whereas, on June 1, 2025, alleged attacker Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw 2 lit
Molotov cocktails at individuals participating in a peaceful gathering
in Boulder, Colorado, calling attention to the hostages held in Gaza;
and
Whereas the attack resulted in 15 individuals being injured, and the death of
Karen Diamond, who died of severe injuries that she suffered in the
attack: 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 Jewish people since the Holocaust,
and those that continue 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 remaining hostages;
(3) reaffirms Israel's right to self-defense from threats
and terrorist organizations that seek her destruction;
(4) commits to ensuring that vital humanitarian aid reaches
Palestinian noncombatants;
(5) urges international organizations, like the United
Nations and all nations across the globe, to unequivocally
denounce the ongoing atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists
and call for the immediate release of the hostages; and
(6) strongly condemns and denounces all instances of
antisemitism globally, domestically, including in K-12 schools
and on college campuses and commits to confronting and
combating this hatred in all its forms and at every level.
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