“Recognizing the ongoing Nakba and Palestinian refugees' rights.”
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This section expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the policy of the United States to (1) commemorate the Nakba (i.e., the 1948 displacement of Palestinians) through official recognition and remembrance; (2) denounce the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people; (3) reject U.S. government association with denial of the Nakba; (4) encourage education and public understanding of the Nakba, including the U.S. role in humanitarian relief and its relevance to modern refugee crises; (5) support resumed social services to Palestinian refugees through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA); (6) support implementation of Palestinian refugees' rights under United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 (i.e., right of return) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (7) recognize Palestinians as a unique people fully equal in humanity to others; (8) reject efforts to deny the existence or humanity of Palestinians; and (9) end U.S. complicity in Israel's ongoing Nakba by prohibiting U.S. weapons from being used to destroy Palestinian homes or forcibly remove Palestinians from their land and by ending U.S. diplomatic support for such actions.