HouseH.Res. 1146119th Congress
Standing with the people of Lebanon against the illegal invasion, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the State of Israel.
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[H. Res. 1146 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1146
Standing with the people of Lebanon against the illegal invasion, war
crimes, and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the State of Israel.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 27, 2026
Ms. Tlaib submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the
Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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RESOLUTION
Standing with the people of Lebanon against the illegal invasion, war
crimes, and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the State of Israel.
Whereas Lebanon is a sovereign nation and a founding Member State of the United
Nations entitled to self-determination, territorial integrity, political
independence, and freedom from the threat or use of force, as guaranteed
by the Charter of the United Nations;
Whereas the United States is home to over 1,000,000 Lebanese Americans with deep
ties and close family connections in Lebanon;
Whereas, for decades, Lebanon's sovereignty has been grossly violated by
repeated attacks, bombings, assassinations, invasions, and military
occupations by the State of Israel, including major invasions in 1978
and 1982, the illegal 18-year military occupation of southern Lebanon
from 1982 through 2000, and major invasions in 2006 and 2024;
Whereas Israel's recent 2024 invasion of Lebanon killed 3,402 people and wounded
14,655 people, with an additional 645 killed and 1,983 wounded by
Israeli attacks in the months leading up to that invasion;
Whereas, despite a November 2024 ceasefire agreement, Israel committed over
15,000 documented ceasefire violations over the course of 15 months,
including near-daily attacks on Lebanese soil killing over 370 people,
the destruction of civilian infrastructure, blocking the return of
displaced people from their homes, firing at United Nations
peacekeepers, and continuing to illegally militarily occupy parts of
Lebanese territory;
Whereas, in early March 2026, amid the United States and Israel's illegal war on
Iran, the Israeli Government launched a new large-scale devastating
bombing campaign and illegal ground invasion of Lebanon, which continues
to cause immense death and suffering to this day;
Whereas this invasion has already killed over 1,116 people, including over 121
children, and wounded over 3,229 people, as of March 26, 2026;
Whereas this invasion has already forcibly displaced over 1,200,000 people,
around one-fifth of Lebanon's entire population, from their homes, as of
March 26, 2026, with the Israeli military telling them that they will
not be allowed to return home;
Whereas the Israeli military has committed war crimes in Lebanon, including the
crimes of wanton destruction, forcible displacement, and the deliberate
targeting of civilians;
Whereas the Israeli military has targeted at least 132 medical facilities and
ambulances and killed at least 42 medical workers and wounded another
119, reportedly using the ``double-tap'' tactic it used in Gaza, where
an initial strike is followed by a pause allowing medical teams to reach
a site, followed by a second strike;
Whereas the Israeli military has issued orders demanding the forced displacement
of the entire Lebanese population south of the Litani and Zahrani rivers
as well as the entirety of Beirut's southern neighborhoods, around 15
percent of Lebanon's entire territory, under threat of indiscriminate
violence;
Whereas the Israeli military has deliberately destroyed critical civilian
infrastructure, including homes, apartment buildings, churches, mosques,
electricity networks, and key bridges that connect the south of Lebanon
with the rest of the country;
Whereas Oxfam International reports that Israeli forces are decimating water and
sanitation infrastructure across parts of Lebanon, a violation of the
Geneva conventions;
Whereas Israeli strikes have wiped out entire families and have emptied and
destroyed entire towns and villages;
Whereas the Israeli military has fired white phosphorous, an incendiary chemical
that can cause death, cruel injuries, and severe chemical burns that
result in lifelong suffering, on residential neighborhoods in southern
Lebanon, a blatant violation of international law;
Whereas the United States is coauthoring this destruction through the weapons,
intelligence, logistics, and diplomatic cover it provides the Israeli
Government;
Whereas Israeli government and military officials have openly announced plans
for Lebanon that involve a repeat of the crimes against humanity and
genocide committed by Israel in Gaza and an intent to occupy, ethnically
cleanse, and annex Lebanese territory;
Whereas Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to destroy
vital bridge crossings across Lebanon's Litani River and accelerate the
demolition of Lebanese houses in border villages ``in accordance with
the Beit Hanoun and Rafah models in Gaza'';
Whereas Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened that ``very soon,
Dahiyeh will resemble Khan Younis'', referring to a densely populated
neighborhood of Lebanon's capital and a city in Gaza that was near
completely destroyed by the Israeli military;
Whereas the Israeli military dropped leaflets over Beirut threatening Lebanon
with a repeat of the ``remarkable success in Gaza'';
Whereas Israeli military officials have told the press that the aim of this
campaign is to implement ``the Gaza model, but in Lebanon'';
Whereas Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that ``the new Israeli
border must be the Litani'', calling for the Israeli takeover and
annexation of a significant amount of Lebanese territory up to Lebanon's
Litani river;
Whereas Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that Israel plans to
``control the remaining bridges and the security zone up to the
Litani'', openly announcing an illegal land grab and an indefinite
military occupation of southern Lebanon, around 10 percent of the
country's territory;
Whereas Israeli Knesset Member Amit Halevi from Netanyahu's Likud Party urged
that Lebanon's Litani River, ``must become the north's new Yellow
Line'', referencing the ever-expanding line of direct Israeli military
occupation that currently splits Gaza in two;
Whereas Israeli Knesset Member Zvi Sukkot from Smotrich's Religious Zionism
party urged that ``We must conquer territory in southern Lebanon,
destroy the villages there and annex the territory to the State of
Israel'';
Whereas former Israeli Defense Minister and indicted war criminal Yoav Gallant
urged the Israeli military ``to strike and eliminate everything that's
in Dahiyeh, Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon, Nabatieh, everywhere'';
Whereas Israeli officials have warned that their invasion of Lebanon will
``expand significantly'' with the mobilization of hundreds of thousands
of additional reservists; and
Whereas the world failed to prevent genocide in Gaza and must act immediately to
prevent it in Lebanon: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that
it is the policy of the United States to--
(1) use the immense leverage of the United States with the
Government of Israel to force an immediate and total withdrawal
of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory and an end to all
Israeli airstrikes and violations of Lebanese sovereignty;
(2) immediately end all unauthorized United States
participation in hostilities in Lebanon;
(3) denounce and reject efforts at territorial expansion
and the illegal military occupation or annexation of Lebanese
territory;
(4) investigate and prosecute suspected war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed in Lebanon in accordance with
the War Crimes Act of 1996, the Genocide Convention
Implementation Act of 1987, and any other relevant sections of
the United States Code;
(5) cease the transfer of arms, equipment, and logistical
support to the State of Israel, which is using United States
weapons in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the
Foreign Assistance Act;
(6) prevent and punish the crime of genocide, wherever it
occurs;
(7) deliver humanitarian and reconstruction aid
unconditionally to the Lebanese people and facilitate and
insist upon the safe return of displaced Lebanese to their
homes; and
(8) redesignate and extend Temporary Protected Status for
Lebanon until it is safe for Lebanese nationals in the United
States to return home.
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