[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 153 (Thursday, September 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            GENOCIDE IN GAZA

  (Ms. Tlaib of Michigan was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, as some of my colleagues continue to try to 
attempt to bully and silence me, I will remind all of them that I grew 
up in Detroit. The more you try to shut us up, the louder we get.
  Mr. Speaker, as we speak right now, the Israeli Government is moving 
to exterminate Palestinians. The U.S.-backed and funded genocide in 
Gaza is reaching new levels of horror every single day that we do not 
take action to stop it.
  There is no more denying it, Mr. Speaker. The International 
Association of Genocide Scholars, hundreds of the world's leading 
experts on genocide, has determined that the Israeli Government is 
committing genocide.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a link to the International 
Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on Gaza. https://
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-
Gaza-FINAL.pdf.
  Mr. Speaker, this week, the United Nations Independent International 
Commission of Inquiry has concluded that the Government of Israel is 
committing genocide in Gaza.
  It calls on all countries to take immediate concrete actions to 
prevent and punish genocide, to stop sending weapons to the Israeli 
Government, and to bring individuals forward, again, to hold them 
accountable and to seek justice for the genocide.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a link to the U.N.'s Independent 
International Commission of Inquiry report on the crime of genocide in 
Gaza if my colleagues would like to read it. https://www.ohchr.org/
sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/
session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf.
  Mr. Speaker, these new determinations only confirm what Palestinians, 
eyewitnesses, journalists, and researchers have been saying for nearly 
2 years: This is a genocide.
  Journalists have been murdered in unprecedented numbers in human 
history, so there is no one left to show the world what is being done. 
There is forced starvation, Mr. Speaker, and destruction of entire 
cities. They are luring starving and desperate people to fake food 
distribution sites in order to kill them. They call them the killing 
fields. Multiple generations of families, entire blood lines, are wiped 
out. Newborns are left decomposing in the NICU as hospitals, doctors, 
and ambulances are systematically targeted and destroyed.
  Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a link to the official report of 
the names and ages of Palestinians confirmed and killed in Gaza. 
https://data.techforpalestine.org/list/.
  Mr. Speaker, look at this. I want the American people to see this. 
The first 21 pages are all infants who did not live long enough to see 
their first birthday.
  There have been over 60,000 human lives confirmed dead so far. 
Children's smiles are extinguished every single day by bombs that say 
``Made in the United States of America.''
  Experts say, and we all know this, that the death toll is likely tens 
of thousands higher with countless bodies still trapped under the 
rubble.
  This must end.
  As we speak, the Israeli military is moving to wipe what remains of 
Gaza city off the map. Gaza is the largest city in Palestine, a vibrant 
city of 1 million people that has existed for thousands of years, and 
it is being erased before our eyes.

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  Mr. Speaker, this is not only the Israeli Government's genocide. This 
is our government's genocide. Our government provides the bombs, the 
diplomatic cover, and the complete and total impunity to kill, 
bulldoze, and exterminate.
  Some of my colleagues cruelly cheer these war crimes on, while others 
quietly express their concerns while voting to send more bombs anyway, 
but the American people know the truth about this genocide. They know 
what their own eyes are seeing, and they are rising up to say: No more. 
No more bombs, no more weapons, no more genocide.
  This will not stop until we act in this body. It is not too late to 
save lives. For humanity's sake, we must act now.


                     Welcoming Detroit to CBC Week

  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, I take a moment to welcome all of my Black 
neighbors throughout the 12th Congressional District to the people's 
House for Congressional Black Caucus' Annual Legislative Conference 
Week.
  Our city, the city of Detroit, the most beautiful, Blackest city, 
where I was born and raised, has strong roots with the Congressional 
Black Caucus. For me, it is no coincidence that the very first chair of 
the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Charles Diggs, was born 
and raised also in Detroit, carrying forward our city's legacy of 
resilience and movements and so much, again, fights against oppression 
here and across the world.
  It was also another son of Detroit, my predecessor and founder of the 
Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman John Conyers, who stood with 
Dr. King and later became the driving force behind making Dr. King's 
birthday a national holiday.
  I am so incredibly proud to welcome all of my neighbors, residents, 
and elected officials to the Nation's Capital. Welcome to Congressional 
Black Caucus Week.

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