A resolution reaffirming support for Israel's right to defend its citizens and ensure the survival of the State of Israel, and for other purposes.

Introduced 3 weeks into Israel’s assault on Gaza, this resolution would reaffirm support for Israel’s right to defend its citizens, condemn Hamas’s cease-fire violations, demand Hamas return a captured IDF soldier, call on the UN secretary-general to condemn Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel, reiterate the call on Hamas to stop using human shields, urge the international community to condemn the ‘unprovoked’ rocket fire on Israel, call on the Palestinian people to reject Hamas, and recognize Israel’s right to take all ‘necessary actions’ to remove Hamas’s rockets and tunnels.

1 cosponsor (1D).

Last major action: 8/1/14 Referred to the Senate Comm. on Foreign Relations.