HR 3045
West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025
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Bill overview
The West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025 aims to address escalating violence in the West Bank by authorizing the President to impose sanctions on foreign individuals deemed responsible for or complicit in actions that threaten peace and stability, undermine the two-state solution, or support terrorism. These sanctions include asset blocking and restrictions on visas and admission to the United States. The bill also establishes reporting requirements and includes exceptions related to international obligations and law enforcement objectives.
Key provisions
- Authorizes the President to impose sanctions on foreign individuals involved in violence or threats of violence in the West Bank.
- Includes asset blocking, prohibiting transactions in property of sanctioned individuals.
- Restricts visas and admission to the United States for individuals sanctioned under the Act.
- Creates exceptions for compliance with international obligations and certain law enforcement objectives.
- Requires the Treasury Secretary to report to Congress on the implementation of the Act.
- Defines key terms related to the sanctions and the scope of the legislation.
Who is affected
- Foreign individuals involved in violence or threats in the West Bank
- U.S. citizens and residents
- Entities operating in the West Bank
- Government entities operating in the West Bank
- The United States
Notable changes
- Expands the President’s authority to impose sanctions related to violence in the West Bank.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 3045
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by committing illegal violent acts.
This Act may be cited as the West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025
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Congress makes the following findings:
The situation in the West Bank—in particular high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction—has reached intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the peace, security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, and the broader Middle East region.
These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom.
They also undermine the security of Israel and have the potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and interests.
These actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
The President shall impose sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person determined by the President to meet any of the following:
To be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in any of the following:
Actions, including directing, enacting, implementing, enforcing, or failing to enforce policies, that threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank.
Planning, ordering, otherwise directing, or participating in any of the following actions affecting the West Bank:
An act of violence or threat of violence targeting civilians.
Efforts to place civilians in reasonable fear of violence with the purpose or effect of necessitating a change of residence to avoid such violence.
Property destruction.
Seizure or dispossession of property by private actors.
To be or have been a leader or official of—
an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in paragraph (1), (5), or (6) related to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or
an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked under this Act as a result of activities relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure.
To have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any person blocked under this Act.
To be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
To have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose a significant risk of committing, or to have participated in training to commit acts of terrorism affecting the West Bank.
To be a leader or official of an entity sanctioned pursuant to paragraph (5).
The sanctions described in this subsection are the following:
Notwithstanding the requirements of section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President shall exercise all powers granted to the President by that Act to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of any foreign person described in subsection (a) of this section, if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person, including any foreign branch.
The prohibitions in subparagraph (A) include—
the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to subparagraph (A); and
the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
An alien who the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has reason to believe, is described in subsection (a) is—
inadmissible to the United States;
ineligible for a visa or other documentation to enter the United States; and
otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into the United States or to receive any other benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
The issuing consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in accordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry documentation issued to an alien described in subparagraph (A) regardless of when the visa or other entry documentation is issued.
A revocation under clause (i)—
shall take effect immediately; and
shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the alien’s possession.
Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) shall not apply with respect to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations.
Sanctions under section (b)(2) may not be imposed if the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, so determines, based on a recommendation of the Attorney General, that the person’s entry would further important United States law enforcement objectives.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of this Act, including the names of any persons sanctioned by this Act.
In this Act—
the term appropriate congressional committees means—
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Finance of the House of Representatives; and
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate;
the term entity means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization;
the term person means an individual or entity;
the term United States person means—
a United States citizen;
a permanent resident alien of the United States;
an entity organized under the laws of the United States or of any jurisdiction within the United States, including a foreign branch of such an entity; or
a person in the United States; and
involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and
appears to be intended—
to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.