Whereas protecting and supporting United States citizens abroad is one of the foremost responsibilities of the United States Government;

Whereas, since January 2022, at least nine United States citizens have been killed by violent Israeli settlers or Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Amer Rabee, Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, Khamis Ayyad, and Nasrallah Abu Siyam;

Whereas the killings of these Americans in the West Bank have been met by a lack of accountability from the Netanyahu government and an inability to secure justice by the United States Government;

Whereas, in January 2022, Omar Assad, a 78-year-old United States citizen, was stopped at a checkpoint in his village of Jiljilya, dragged by Israeli soldiers from his car, and left lying on the ground outside with his hands bound behind his back, gagged, and blindfolded, where he died of a stress-induced heart attack;

Whereas, in May 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, referenced by some as the voice of a generation, was shot in the head and killed near the Jenin refugee camp by Israeli security forces while she wore a vest clearly marking her as a journalist;

Whereas, in January 2024, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old American boy, was shot in the head and killed, reportedly by an Israeli settler, an off-duty Israeli police officer, and an Israel Defense Forces soldier, while driving east of Ramallah;

Whereas, in February 2024, in circumstances similar to Tawfic Abdel Jabbar’s killing, Mohammad Ahmad Alkhdour, another 17-year-old American boy, was shot twice in the head while driving, reportedly by Israeli forces, near the town of Biddu;

Whereas, in September 2024, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American raised in Seattle, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier from a distance of 200 meters;

Whereas, in April 2025, Amer Mohammad Saada Rabee, a 14-year-old boy from New Jersey, was shot and killed at the entrance to Turmus Ayya by Israeli security forces, with reports suggesting he was shot a total of 11 times by two different guns;

Whereas, in July 2025, Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a 20-year-old American from Florida who was visiting family in the West Bank, was beaten to death by violent Israeli settlers during a settler attack on the town of Sinjil, where eyewitness accounts report that settlers and Israeli forces impeded ambulance access for more than two hours;

Whereas, on July 15, 2025, Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the killing of Mr. Musallet a criminal and terrorist act and stated there must be accountability;

Whereas, in August 2025, Khamis Ayyad, a 40-year-old Palestinian-American and father of five, died of smoke inhalation after violent Israeli settlers set homes and cars on fire during an attack on the village of Silwad;

Whereas, in February 2026, Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a 19-year-old American born in Philadelphia, was shot and killed in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, near Ramallah, by violent Israeli settlers during an attack on Palestinian farmers;

Whereas, in August 2026, Khamis Rabee Jabara, an 82-year-old Palestinian American, was hospitalized after Israeli soldiers used a flashbang grenade against him and then confiscated bystander footage of the incident in the village of Turmusayya;

Whereas the Israeli government has failed to address this pattern of violence against Americans in the West Bank and hold perpetrators accountable;

Whereas United States Federal agencies, including the Department of Justice and the Department of State, have either failed to open their own independent investigations into these killings or have not provided substantive information on the status of existing investigations;

Whereas, in February 2025, Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old American boy from Florida, was arrested and held in pre-trial detention for nine months where he was denied any contact with his family until his release on Thanksgiving Day 2025;

Whereas the United States Embassy officials and lawyers who met Mohammed in person told his family that he lost close to one-quarter of his body weight, contracted scabies, and was beaten and tortured during his imprisonment;

Whereas, in June 2026, Sama Safi, a 20-year-old Palestinian-American student, was detained in a series of raids targeting students at Birzeit University, and she remains in detention in an Israeli military prison;

Whereas, in July 2026, Adam Wajeh Abdelfattah Karakrah, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American boy, was arrested, and moments before he was set to be released after his family paid bail, the Israeli authorities decided to hold him for an entirely new case, and he remains in pre-trial detention in an Israeli military prison;

Whereas hundreds of Palestinian children are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system each year while Israeli children in the West Bank are subject to Israeli civil law;

Whereas, according to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, since October 7, 2023, living conditions in Israeli prisons and military detention camps amount to torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and dozens of Palestinian detainees have died while in Israeli Prison Service custody and at least 44 in military camps. Human rights organizations have documented widespread abuses, including physical beatings, sexual violence, harassment, and threats—pointing to systemic and deliberate mistreatment. In military camps, detainees have reportedly been held in outdoor cages, blindfolded and handcuffed around the clock, forced to kneel for extended periods, and subjected to punishment for the slightest acts of disobedience.;

Whereas, according to public reporting, Palestinian prisoners held in the Sde Teiman military prison were subjected to widespread physical and mental abuses, including one prominent incident caught on video of Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner;

Whereas, as of December 2025, the Israel Prison Service reported holding 351 children;

Whereas, since October 7, 2023, Israeli authorities have barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting any Palestinian detainees in Israeli places of detention;

Whereas, since 2000, Israeli military authorities have detained, interrogated, prosecuted, and imprisoned approximately 13,000 Palestinian children, according to public estimates;

Whereas, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, from October 7, 2023 through October 16, 2025, more than 1,000 Palestinians—including 210 children—were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, by settlers, Israeli security officers, or jointly by settlers and the military;

Whereas, in 2025, the Israeli government approved 54 new official settlements, established 86 new outposts, and advanced the planning of 27,941 settlement housing units by the Higher Planning Council—each marking a new record high, according to Peace Now;

Whereas, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there were 1,828 settler attacks against Palestinian residents resulting in bodily injury or property damage in 2025, and those attacks included the slaughter or theft of livestock, the destruction or uprooting of thousands of olive trees, and the destruction, confiscation, or theft of water pumping equipment;

Whereas, between 2005 and December 2025, more than 93 percent of 1,685 police investigations into settler violence in the West Bank concluded without an indictment, according to Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din, and only 6.7 percent concluded with an indictment, and only 50 cases, or three percent of the total investigations monitored, ended with full or partial convictions;

Whereas there have been no convictions for the deaths of any Palestinian civilians killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers since 2020, and there has been only one indictment against a settler on a charge of killing a Palestinian in that same timeframe since 2019;

Whereas The Platform, a coalition of 13 Israeli human rights groups, reports that the military’s deliberate failure to stop settler incursions into Palestinian lands and communities combined with minimal enforcement by the police, prosecution, and judicial system; the lack of effective investigation and accountability; and the public and political support for violent settlers by ministers and Members of Knesset, demonstrate that, in practice, settler violence is state-backed;

Whereas, in its annual report for 2025, the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue documented 155 cases of attacks against Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem, including 61 physical attacks on Christians, 52 attacks on church properties, 28 cases of harassment, and 14 instances of defacing public signs, and reported that the current government in particular has been criticized for failing to reduce crime, and instead turning violence into a political instrument . . . an opportunity to advance a broader political agenda; and

Whereas there has been a sharp rise in violent Israeli settler attacks against Christian communities in the West Bank: Now, therefore, be it