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IV118th CONGRESS2d SessionH. RES. 1161IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESApril 19, 2024Mr. Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign AffairsRESOLUTIONCommemorating innocent civilian lives lost in Gaza, especially children.

Whereas this resolution may be cited as the Original Resolution Commemorating Innocent Civilian Lives Lost in Gaza, Especially Children; Whereas, on October 7, 2023, Hamas conducted a heinous attack on Israel, leading to Israel declaring war on Hamas, not Palestine or Palestinians; Whereas both Palestinians and Israelis are in mourning; Whereas, in 2020, the population of Gaza was over 2,000,000, with approximately half being children under the age of 18; Whereas the pain, suffering, and deaths of innocent Palestinian men, women, and especially children are too often reduced to statisticization; Whereas people of good will must do more to humanize the pain and suffering of Palestinians in Gaza with explanations of how they lost arms, legs, eyes, hearing, and lives; Whereas, because of the war, homes, schools, businesses, and hospitals within Gaza have been decimated; Whereas hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian men, women, and especially children in Gaza have suffered through the loss of mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters while starving and suffering the mental anguish associated with war; Whereas civilians in Gaza live in constant fear of the sudden loss of arms, legs, and life; and Whereas tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including thousands of children, have been brutally killed in a war beyond their control: Now, therefore, be it

That— (1)the House of Representatives commemorates the tens of thousands of innocent civilian lives lost in Gaza, especially those of children; (2)the lives lost should be viewed as more than mere statistics; (3)the humanity, pain, suffering and deaths of the tens of thousands of men, woman, and especially children must be commemorated and memorialized; (4)the killing of innocent men, women, and especially children in Palestine must cease immediately; (5)all hostages must be returned immediately; and (6)because United States largesse has contributed to the purchase of munitions used by the Netanyahu administration, the United States must do everything it can to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, perpetrated by the destruction of homes, infrastructure, schools, and hospitals.