Resolution would request a report on Israel’s human rights practices

The Senate requests that the Secretary of State send an unclassified statement to the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees. The request covers Israel's human rights practices. The statement is to be prepared with the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Department of State's Office of the Legal Adviser. The statement is requested within 30 days after the Senate adopts the resolution.

The requested statement should describe and assess reported killings of U.S. citizens in the West Bank since January 1, 2022, and related investigations and accountability efforts. The named cases include nine U.S. citizens killed since January 1, 2022. It should cover credible information known to the State Department, including evidence and information from Israeli and Palestinian officials and nongovernmental groups, where credible. It should address whether there is credible information about responsible people or security units and whether units may be covered by cited U.S. laws. The requested account covers killings since January 1, 2022.

The requested statement should describe U.S. citizens held in Israeli prisons and Palestinian children held under Israeli military law in the West Bank. The request covers U.S. citizens currently held in Israeli prisons and Palestinian children detained under Israeli military law in the West Bank. For U.S. citizens, it should report why each person is held, prison visits by U.S. Embassy officials, detention conditions, credible mistreatment reports, and any charges. For Palestinian children, it should report numbers, charges, access to lawyers, mistreatment, detention facilities, responsibility for serious rights violations, and comparisons with U.S. federal juvenile detention standards. The account of U.S. citizens covers those held in Israeli prisons when the statement is prepared.