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115TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. 68

Condemning Palestinian incitement and reaffirming the special bond between

Israel and the United States.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 27, 2017

Mr. HASTINGS (for himself and Mr. WOODALL) submitted the following

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

RESOLUTION Condemning Palestinian incitement and reaffirming the

special bond between Israel and the United States.

Whereas since September 2015 a series of more than 300

terrorist attacks have been carried out against citizens of

Israel;

Whereas these terror attacks are the direct result of incite-

ment by radical Palestinian elements provoking violence

and calling on Palestinian youth to murder Jews;

Whereas Palestinian terrorist attacks are part of the Pales-

tinian Authority’s strategy of ‘‘popular resistance’’ that

was formally adopted by the Palestinian Authority and

Fatah at the Sixth Fatah conference in August 2009;

Whereas according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

since September 2015 Palestinian terrorists have tar-

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geted Israeli citizens in 169 stabbings, 124 shootings, 51

vehicular attacks, and 1 vehicle bombing;

Whereas it is appropriate to list these attacks, which include

but are not limited to—

(1) an attack on January 8, 2017, when a Pales-

tinian used his vehicle to ram a group of Israel Defense

Forces cadets at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Je-

rusalem, killing 4 and injuring 17;

(2) an attack on December 25, 2016, when terror-

ists fired shots at Israelis from a vehicle in Beit El;

(3) an attempted attack on December 24, 2016,

when Israeli security forces thwarted a stabbing attack

by an Arab woman in the Jerusalem’s Old City;

(4) an attack on December 24, 2016, when terror-

ists threw 6 Molotov cocktails at cars in Ofarim;

(5) an attack on December 23, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian stabbed a 50-year-old man in Efrat;

(6) an attack on December 14, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian stabbed two Israeli border police officers and a 13-

year-old boy in Jerusalem’s Old City;

(7) an attempted attack on December 8, 2016, when

a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli border police

officer at the Tapuah Junction;

(8) an attack on November 26, 2016, when terror-

ists threw a Molotov cocktail at Israeli police officers in

Jerusalem;

(9) an attempted attack on November 25, 2016,

when a 16-year-old Palestinian attempted to stab an

Israeli officer in Jerusalem;


ists threw five Molotov cocktails at a bus near Jerusalem;


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ists threw stones and pipe bombs at Israel Defense

Forces soldiers near Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem;

(12) an attack on November 3, 2016, when a ter-

rorist attempted to stab Israel Defense Forces soldiers

stationed at a roadside bus stop near Ofra;

(13) an attack on October 31, 2016, when a member

of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces shot and

wounded three Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Beit El;

(14) an attack on October 30, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian used his vehicle to ram and injure three Israeli

border police officers near Hebron;

(15) an attempted attack on October 29, 2016,

when a Palestinian attempted to use his vehicle to ram

Israel Defense Forces soldiers, after which he exited the

vehicle and attempted to stab them, near Ofra;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli border po-

lice officers at the Tapuah Junction;


tinian killed two Israelis in a triple shooting in Jeru-

salem;

(18) an attack on September 30, 2016, when a Pal-

estinian stabbed a member of the Israeli security forces

at the Qalandia crossing;

(19) an attempted attack on September 20, 2016,

when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israel Defense

Forces soldier near Kiryat Arba;

(20) an attack on September 20, 2016, when two

Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded by petrol

bombs near Bethlehem;


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Forces soldier in Hebron;


when two Palestinians attempted to stab Israel Defense

Forces soldiers in Hebron;


estinian stabbed two Israeli police officers at Jerusalem’s

Flower Gate;


estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Efrat;


estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in He-

bron;


estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in He-

bron;


when two Palestinians attempted to use their vehicle to

ram Israeli civilians in Kiryat Arba;

(28) an attack on September 16, 2016, when a Jor-

danian attempted to stab Israeli police officers near Jeru-

salem’s Old City;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israel Defense

Forces soldiers in Jerusalem’s Old City;

(30) an attack on August 31, 2016, when an Israel

Defense Forces soldier guarding Jewish worshippers at

Joseph’s Tomb was shot by fire coming from Balata ref-

ugee camp in Nablus;


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(31) an attack on August 24, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near

Gilad;

(32) an attack on August 18, 2016, when Israelis

riding in a bus were injured after the vehicle was struck

by stones;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Shaked;


tinian stabbed an Israeli citizen visiting the Mount of Ol-

ives cemetery in Jerusalem;

(35) an attempted attack on July 31, 2016, when a

Palestinian attempted to stab Israel Defense Forces sol-

diers in Hawara;

(36) an attack on July 18, 2016, when a Palestinian

stabbed two Israel Defense Forces soldiers on the Gush

Etzion-Hebron Highway;


Palestinian was arrested carrying several pipe bombs and

knives in Jerusalem;


shot and wounded an Israeli motorist at the Tekoa Junc-

tion;


Palestinian attempted to stab two Israel Defense Forces

soldiers in Ariel;


killed one and injured three in a drive-by shooting in

Gush Etzion;


Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli border police of-

ficer in Hebron;


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(42) an attack on June 30, 2016, when a 13-year-

old girl was stabbed to death in her bed by a Palestinian

terrorist from a village near Kiryat Arba;

(43) an attack on June 30, 2016, when two Israelis

were stabbed near the Netanya market;

(44) an attack on June 26, 2016, when a Molotov

cocktail was thrown at an Israeli car on the Aboud by-

pass road;

(45) an attack on June 26, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian driver rammed her vehicle into a car at a hitch-

hiking stop, injuring two Israelis near Kiryat Arba;

(46) an attack on June 21, 2016, when Palestinians

threw stones at cars traveling on Route 443;


threw more than 20 Molotov cocktails at the Psagot Set-

tlement;


threw four Molotov cocktails at an Israeli home in Jeru-

salem;

(49) an attack on June 8, 2016, when two Pales-

tinian men killed four and injured 17 in the Sarona Mar-

ket in Tel Aviv;

(50) an attack on June 6, 2016, when a Palestinian

shot at vehicles on Route 465;


barraged a bus traveling on Road 437 with stones;


threw Molotov cocktails at Jewish worshippers in Nablus;

(53) an attempted attack on June 2, 2016, when a

Palestinian attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces

soldier near Einay;


threw stones at cars traveling on Route 443;


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(55) an attack on May 30, 2016, when a Palestinian

stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier with a screw-

driver in Tel Aviv;

(56) an attack on May 24, 2016, when Palestinians

threw stones at a bus in Jerusalem;

(57) an attempted attack on May 23, 2016, when a

Palestinian attempted to stab two Israeli border police of-

ficers in Jerusalem;

(58) an attack on May 22, 2016, when a Molotov

cocktail was thrown at a bus in the village of Hawara;


threw stones at a bus on Highway 443;


shot at a passenger bus near Gush Etzion;

(61) an attack on May 10, 2016, when multiple pipe

bombs injured two Israel Defense Forces soldiers near

Hizma;

(62) an attack on May 10, 2016, when two Palestin-

ians stabbed two Israeli women, aged 86 and 82, in Jeru-

salem;

(63) an attack on May 3, 2016, a Palestinian driver

rammed his vehicle into three Israel Defense Forces sol-

diers near Jerusalem;

(64) an attack on May 2, 2016, when a Palestinian

stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem’s Old City;


threw stones at a car traveling near Efrat, injuring two

children;

(66) an attack on April 19, 2016, when a bomb

planted aboard a bus exploded, injuring 21 in Jerusalem;

(67) an attack on April 14, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian attacked a group of Israel Defense Forces soldiers

with an axe near Gush Etzion;


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(68) an attack on April 14, 2016, when stones were

thrown at a car traveling on Highway 431;

(69) an attempted attack on April 14, 2016, when

two Palestinian children were arrested with knives in Je-

rusalem’s Old City;

(70) an attack on March 25, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian attempted to stab Israel Defense Forces soldiers in

Jerusalem;

(71) an attack on March 24, 2016, when two Pal-

estinians stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near

Hebron;

(72) an attack on March 18, 2016, when three Pal-

estinians attacked Israel Defense Forces soldiers with

knives;


estinians stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Ariel;


estinians attempted to use their vehicle to ram Israelis,

later opening fire on civilians and soldiers standing in a

bus stop near the entrance to Kiryat Arba;


tinian stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem;


tinian shot two Israel Defense Forces soldiers near Beit

Horon;


estinians opened fire on police officers and civilians near

Jerusalem’s Old City;

(78) an attempted attack on March 8, 2016, when

a Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli border police offi-

cers in Jerusalem’s Old City;


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tinian opened fire on Israeli border police officers with an

automatic weapon near Jerusalem’s Old City;


tinian stabbed an Israeli in Petah Tikva;


tinian went on a stabbing spree in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa Port,

injuring 10 and killing American student Taylor Force;


tinian used her vehicle to ram an Israel Defense Forces

soldier at the Gush Etzion junction;


tinian stabbed a police officer in the Jordan Valley;


tinian shot and injured a police officer in Rahelim;


estinians attacked an Israeli man in his home in Eli;


estinians stabbed two police officers in Har Brakha;

(87) an attack on February 26, 2016, when a Pales-

tinian critically wounded an Israeli with an axe near

Ma’ale Adumin;

(88) an attempted attack on February 26, 2016,

when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israel Defense

Forces soldiers near Ramallah;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces reservist near

Gush Etzion;


when two Palestinians were arrested with pipe bombs

near Jerusalem’s Old City;


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when a Palestinian was arrested with a large knife prior

to attacking Israeli civilians;





tinian attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier

near Nablus;



Forces soldier outside of Jerusalem’s Old City;


tinian stabbed two Israeli border policemen outside of Je-



when a Palestinian attempted to use her vehicle to ram

Israel Defense Forces soldiers;

(97) an attack on February 18, 2016, when two Pal-

estinians stabbed shoppers at a supermarket in Sh’ae

Binyamin;



Forces soldier outside of Jerusalem’s Old City;


estinians shot at Israel Defense Forces soldiers outside of







Forces soldier outside of Tekoa-Har Homa;


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(102) an attack on February 19, 2016, when two

Palestinians shot at Israel Defense Forces soldiers near

Hinanit;

(103) an attack on February 13, 2016, when a Pal-

estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier and a

Palestinian man in Hebron;


tinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in Hebron;


tinian stabbed an Israeli woman in Rahat;


estinians stabbed a mall security guard in Ramle;

(107) an attack on February 3, 2016, when three

Palestinians killed one Israeli border police officer and

wounded two others outside of Jerusalem’s Old City;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in Sal’it;


tinian opened fire on three Israel Defense Forces sol-

diers, wounding three near Beit El;


tinian stabbed an Israeli outside of Jerusalem’s Old City;


tinian stabbed an Israeli in Givat Ze’ev;

(112) an attack on January 25, 2016, when two

Palestinians stabbed two Israeli women at a supermarket

in Beit Horon;


tinian gunman opened fire at a vehicle driving near the

community of Dolev;


tinian stabbed a pregnant Israeli woman in Tekoa;


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(115) an attempted attack on January 17, 2016,

when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in the

West Bank;


tinian stabbed an Israeli woman to death outside of her

home in Otniel;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near

Nablus;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli near Beit

Anoun;

(119) an attack on January 13, 2016, when an

Israeli bus driver was injured after his bus was damaged

by a rock thrown by a Palestinian near Jerusalem;


when two Palestinians attempted to stab Israelis near

Kiryat Arba;


when two Palestinians attempted to stab Israelis in the

Jordan Valley;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli near

Kiryat Arba;


when three Palestinians attempted to stab an Israeli near

Gush Etzion;

(124) an attack on January 5, 2016, when an

Israeli bus driver was injured after his bus was damaged

by a rock thrown by a Palestinian on Highway 79;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israelis outside of

the National Police Headquarters in Jerusalem;


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when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in Jeru-

salem;


tinian opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

the South Hebron Hills;

(128) an attack on January 3, 2016, when Pales-

tinian snipers shot an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Hebron;


tinian opened fire on Israeli vehicles near Jerusalem;


tinian killed two and injured 8 in a shooting attack in

Tel Aviv;


tinian shot and killed an Israeli taxi driver in Tel Aviv;

(132) an attack on December 31, 2015, when a Pal-

estinian used his vehicle to ram an Israel Defense Forces

soldier in the West Bank;

(133) an attack on December 27, 2015, when two

Palestinians stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Hawara;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in He-

bron;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in the

West Bank;



salem’s Old City;


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estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in Je-



estinian used his vehicle to ram an Israel Defense Forces

soldier in the West Bank;



salem’s Old City;

(140) an attack on December 25, 2015, when Pal-

estinians attacked the vehicle of the Latin Patriarch in

Bethlehem;



an Israeli in Silwad;





estinian stabbed two Israel Defense Forces soldiers in

Ariel;


estinian stabbed and killed a rabbi outside of Jerusalem’s

Old City;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in He-

bron;


estinian stabbed three Israelis in Raanana;



Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank;


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(148) an attack on December 14, 2015, when three

Israelis were injured after a rock was thrown through the

windshield of their car in Beit Aryeh;

(149) an attack on December 14, 2015, when 14

Israelis were injured in a vehicular ramming attack at a

bus stop in Jerusalem;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli civilian

in Kiryat Arba;



Israel Defense Soldiers near Kiryat Arba;


estinian opened fire on Israel Defense Forces soldiers in

Gilboa;


estinian used his vehicle to ram Israel Defense Soldiers

in the West Bank;


when three Palestinians were apprehended with butcher

knives in Afula;

(155) an attack on December 9, 2015, when Pal-

estinians opened fire on an Israeli family in a drive by

shooting, injuring two in the West Bank;


estinian stabbed a civilian and a member of the Israel

Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron;


estinian stabbed an Israeli civilian in Hebron;


estinian used his vehicle to ram and subsequently stab

Israelis in Jerusalem;


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estinian used his vehicle to ram two Israel Defense

Forces soldiers in Ofra;


estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in in

Abud;

(161) an attack on December 4, 2015, when two

Palestinians stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in

Hebron;


estinian shot an Israel Defense Forces soldier and an

Israeli civilian north of Jerusalem;


estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near



when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli at the

Gush Etzion junction;



Forces soldier in the West Bank;

(166) an attack on November 29, 2015, when a Pal-

estinian stabbed an Israeli border police officer near Je-



estinian stabbed a foreign worker from Nepal in Jeru-

salem;


estinian used his vehicle to ram two Israel Defense

Forces soldiers in Kfar Adumim;


estinian used his vehicle to ram six Israel Defense Forces

soldiers in the West Bank;


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estinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in the

West Bank;


estinian used his vehicle to ram three Israel Defense

Forces soldiers and one border police officer in the West

Bank;

(172) an attack on November 23, 2015, when two

Palestinians stabbed an elderly Palestinian man from

Bethlehem near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market;


estinian used his vehicle to ram an Israeli near Shavei

Shomron;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israel Defense sol-

diers in the West Bank;


estinian stabbed and killed an Israel Defense Forces sol-

dier and wounded two others near Modi’in;



in the West Bank;


when a Palestinian taxi driver attempted to use his vehi-

cle to ram a group of Israeli pedestrians in Kfar

Adumim;


estinian stabbed and killed an Israeli civilian in Gush

Etzion;


estinian stabbed four people in Kiryat Gat;


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estinian killed two Israelis and wounded one in a stab-

bing attack in Tel Aviv;


estinian gunman opened fire and killed three, including

one American, sitting in a traffic jam south of Jeru-

salem;


estinian gunman opened fire and killed two and wounded

four in Otniel;


Palestinian youth stabbed an Israeli security guard on

the Jerusalem light rail;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli police of-

ficer outside of Jerusalem’s Old City;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli border

police officer near Abu Dis;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli police offi-

cers in the West Bank;


estinian used his vehicle to ram four Israelis at a hitch-

hiking stop at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank;


estinian stabbed an Israeli security guard near Jeru-

salem;


estinian stabbed an Israeli man in the West Bank;


estinian stabbed an Israeli man near Jerusalem;


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Palestinians opened fire and wounded two Israelis in He-

bron;


estinian opened fire and wounded an Israel Defense

Forces soldier near Hebron;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli in Gush

Etzion;


estinian used his vehicle to ram three Israeli border po-

lice officers, killing one and wounding two near Hebron;


estinian stabbed a 71 year-old Israeli man in Netanya;


estinian stabbed three Israelis, including an 80-year-old

woman, in Tel Aviv;


when a two Palestinians attempted to stab an Israel De-

fense Forces soldier in the West Bank;


estinian used his vehicle to ram three Israel border police

officers in Hebron;

(199) an attack on October 31, 2015, when a 17-

year-old Palestinian attempted to stab Israel Defense

Forces soldiers near the Gilboa crossing;

(200) an attack on October 30, 2015, when two Pal-

estinians attempted to stab Israeli border police officers

near the Tapuach Junction;

(201) an attack on October 30, 2015, when an

Israeli was stabbed by a Palestinian near the French Hill

light rail station in Jerusalem;


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tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near the

Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron;



Forces soldier in the neighborhood of Beit Hadassah;

(204) an attack on October 29, 2015, when shots

were fired from a vehicle towards a bus stop near Jeru-

salem;


Israeli woman was stabbed by a Palestinian outside of

the Rami Levy supermarket near Gush Etzion;



Forces soldier near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in He-

bron;


estinians stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near

Gush Etzion;


when two Palestinian teenagers were apprehended with a

knife and an axe in Jerusalem;


Israel Defense Forces soldier was stabbed by two Pal-

estinians near Gush Etzion;


Israel Defense Forces soldier was stabbed and seriously

wounded near Hebron;


when a Palestinian assailant attempted to stab an Israel

Defense Forces soldier outside of the Tomb of the Patri-

archs in Hebron;


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Israeli man was wounded in a stabbing attack after his

car was stoned by Palestinian assailants near Metzad;


when a 17-year-old female Palestinian assailant at-

tempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier near

Hebron;


Israeli man was stabbed near Ariel;


when a 16-year-old Palestinian posing as a candy vendor

attempted to stab a security guard near the Gilboa cross-

ing;


Israel Defense Forces soldier was stabbed in Gush

Etzion;


Israeli couple and their three young children were wound-

ed when a firebomb was thrown at their car near Beit

El;


when a student was stabbed and moderately injured while

waiting for the bus in Bet Shemesh;


when two Palestinian terrorists attempted to board an

Israeli school bus to carry out a knife attack in Bet

Shemesh;


when a 15-year-old Palestinian attempted to attack

Israeli security forces with a knife in Yitzhar;


Israeli policeman was injured in a car-ramming attack in

Ofra;


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Israel Defense Forces soldier was critically wounded in a

stabbing attack near at the Adam Junction near Jeru-

salem;


when two Palestinians were apprehended by Israeli secu-

rity forces who found homemade explosive devices in their

vehicle;

(224) an attack on October 21, 2015, when five

Israel Defense Forces soldiers were injured after their ve-

hicle was attacked with stones, and, after exiting the ve-

hicle in order to apprehend the stone-throwers, were

rammed by a vehicle near Beit Ummar;


Israeli man was killed after his vehicle was stoned, and,

after escaping the vehicle, was struck and run over in a

vehicular attack;


Israel Defense Forces soldier was injured in a stabbing

attack in Hebron;

(227) an attack on October 20, 2015, when two

Israelis were wounded in a vehicular attack and at-

tempted stabbing at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion Junc-

tion;


Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed and 10 civilians

and police officers wounded after a Palestinian terrorist

entered the Central Bus Station of Be’er Sheva and

opened fire;


when a 16-year-old Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli

border police officers in Jerusalem;


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in Hebron;


year-old Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli border po-

lice officer in Hebron;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier at a po-

lice checkpoint in Hebron;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli police of-

ficer and bomb squad officer at the Kalandiya Check-

point near Jerusalem;

(234) an attack on October 16, 2015, when Pales-

tinian rioters set fire to Joseph’s Tomb, a Jewish Holy

site in Nablus;


when Israeli border police detected an explosive device at

a checkpoint near Hebrew University’s Campus at Mount

Scopus in Jerusalem;


tinian disguised as a photojournalist stabbed an Israel

Defense Forces soldier near Hebron;


when Israeli border police discovered a knife hidden

under the assailant’s seat in Jerusalem;


tinian stabbed two people by the Damascus Gate in the

Old City of Jerusalem;


Israeli woman was stabbed by a Palestinian while waiting

for a bus near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem;


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Israeli man was stabbed in the center of Raanana;

(241) an attack on October 13, 2015, when four

Israelis were wounded in a stabbing attack in Raanana;


Israelis were killed and 15 wounded when two Palestin-

ians boarded a bus and began to attack passengers in Je-

rusalem;


Israeli man was killed and five wounded by a Palestinian

in a vehicle attack in Jerusalem;


when a stabbing attack was foiled outside of the Lion’s

Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem;


Israeli border police officer was stabbed by a 16-year-old

Palestinian in Jerusalem;


estinian stabbed two Israeli civilians, including a 13-year-

old Israeli boy riding his bicycle, in Jerusalem;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier on a bus

in Jerusalem;


Israeli police officer was injured after the driver of the

car he pulled over set off an explosive device in Ma’ale

Adumim;


year-old Palestinian stabbed two Israelis near the Da-

mascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem;


tinian stabbed two Israeli police officers near the Damas-

cus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem;


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year-old Israeli boy was stabbed by a Palestinian in Jeru-

salem;


tinian stabbed a police officer in Kiryat Arba;


when a Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli security

guard at the Central Bus Station of Afula;

(254) an attack on October 8, 2015, when an Israel

Defense Forces soldier and three others were stabbed by

a Palestinian in Tel Aviv;


tinian stabbed an Israeli civilian near the light rail in Je-

rusalem;

(256) an attack on October 8, 2015, when a man

was stabbed and seriously wounded by a Palestinian in

Kiryat Arba;

(257) an attack on October 8, 2015, when an Israel

Defense Forces soldier was wounded in a stabbing attack

in Afula;


tinian wounded an Israeli man in a stabbing attack in

Petach Tikva;

(259) an attack on October 7, 2015, when an 18-

year-old Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man near the

Lion’s Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem;


tinian stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier in Kiryat

Gat;


year-old Israeli boy was stabbed by a Palestinian in Jeru-

salem;


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Israelis were stabbed to death and two others injured by

a Palestinian in Jerusalem;


Israelis traveling with their four children were killed in

a drive-by shooting near Nabulus;





when an Israel Defense Forces soldier was injured by a

firebomb near Joseph’s Tomb; and

(266) an attack on September 13, 2015, when an

Israeli was killed after his vehicle was struck by rocks

near Jerusalem;

Whereas the international community has remained nearly si-

lent in response to these attacks and attempted attacks;

Whereas Palestinian violence is driven by anti-Jewish incite-

ment and delegitimization of Israel’s right to exist;

Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in

addressing the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt, stated on

May 28, 2016, that ‘‘we [the Palestinian Authority] in-

cite [against Israel] in the media and in educational insti-

tutions’’;

Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

said on July 30, 2013, that ‘‘in a final resolution, [the

Palestinian Authority] would not see the presence of a

single Israeli’’ in the state of Palestine;

Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

stated on a September 16, 2015, television broadcast that

‘‘We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.


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This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to Allah.

With the help of Allah, every martyr will be in heaven,

and every wounded will get his reward’’;

Whereas the Palestinian Government praises Palestinian ter-

rorists as heroes to be commended and emulated;

Whereas Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza routinely dis-

tribute sweets to celebrate successful terrorist attacks;

Whereas on September 30, 2015, Palestinian Authority

President Mahmoud Abbas said during a speech to the

United Nations that the Palestinian Authority is no

longer bound to the 1995 Oslo Accords which established

the two-state solution for peace;

Whereas in a November 2014 address commemorating the

10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, President

Abbas said that as Israel has no claim to Jerusalem, he

will not allow the Temple Mount to be ‘‘contaminated by

Jews’’, and threatened that Jewish prayer at the site

would cause a ‘‘devastating religious war’’;

Whereas in June 2013, Palestinian Authority President

Mahmoud Abbas referenced Israeli acts which ‘‘indicate

an evil and dangerous plot to destroy Al-Aqsa and build

the alleged temple’’; and

Whereas Israelis and Palestinians alike have the right to live

in safety and dignity; Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-1

resentatives that the United States— 2

(1) condemns incitement and acts of violence 3

against Israeli citizens; 4


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(2) calls on Palestinian Authority President 1

Mahmoud Abbas to publically condemn incitement 2

and acts of violence against Israeli citizens and to 3

discontinue incitement in Palestinian Authority-con-4

trolled media outlets; 5

(3) calls on the international community to con-6

demn incitement and acts of violence against Israeli 7

citizens; 8

(4) believes that any chance at lasting peace 9

can only happen through peaceful, bilateral, discus-10

sions and sound consultation with peaceful allies, not 11

calls for bloodshed; 12

(5) expresses support for individuals and orga-13

nizations working to encourage cooperation between 14

Israelis and Palestinians, and the many activists 15

within Israel and the Palestinian territories working 16

to bring an end to the conflict; and 17

(6) reaffirms the friendship between Israel and 18

the United States. 19

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