U.S. WEAPONS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL: Suspend All Transfers & Military Aid

We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, hereby submit this public petition demanding that U.S. President Donald J. Trump faithfully execute the duties of the Office of President as established in Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which requires that the President “shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” In fulfillment of this constitutional obligation, we demand the immediate, unilateral, and indefinite suspension of all U.S. military assistance and weapons transfers to the State of Israel.

This suspension must include, without exception, all foreign military sales (FMS), direct commercial sales (DCS), security sector assistance (SSA), foreign military financing (FMF), transfers of U.S. government-owned defense articles, services, and technical data, and a freeze on all undisbursed military assistance and weapons previously authorized or appropriated by Congress for transfer to the State of Israel.

U.S. law unequivocally prohibits the provision of military assistance to any foreign government when there is credible evidence that such assistance has been used to commit gross violations of human rights or international humanitarian law. These prohibitions arise under, among other authorities, U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (1961 Leahy Law 87-195), and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (1976 Law 90-629), and are reinforced by binding obligations under the Genocide Convention Implementation Act (1988 Proxmire Law 100-606), 1949 Geneva Conventions, the International Bill of Human Rights, the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the decisions of both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). 

These laws impose an affirmative duty on both the Executive and Legislative branches to suspend military assistance when gross violations are credibly established. As set forth below, overwhelming and well-documented evidence demonstrates that the State of Israel has used U.S.-manufactured and supplied weapons to commit grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law in the occupied Palestinian territories. 

Despite clear formal notices of violations being provided to the U.S. President and the U.S. Congress, beginning April 29, 2024 in the form of Amnesty International USA-Submission to NSM-20 giving formal evidence of the Israeli military forces use of U.S.-supplied U.S.-manufactured weapons to commit war crimes in the Gaza Strip, both U.S. President Donald J. Trump and the 119th U.S. Congress, and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the 118th Congress, have knowingly and recklessly continued to provide U.S. diplomatic support and supply a total of ~$51.7 billion in U.S.-manufactured weapons to the State of Israel, through U.S. taxpayer funded military assistance programs between Oct. 7, 2023 and December 28, 2025.🔗 https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4.29.2024-NSM-20-AIUSA-submission-re-Israel.pdf

Point-in-time measure: April 30, 2024 One day after Amnesty International provided Submission to NSM-20 to U.S. President Joe Biden and the 118th U.S. Congress, the Israeli military forces had killed at least 34,568 Palestinian people and injured/maimed at least 77,765 others in the Gaza Strip, between Oct. 7, 2013 and April 30, 2024, according to UNOCHA Humanitarian Situation Report 284. 🔗 https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-update-284-gaza-strip 

Point-in-time measure: Dec. 23, 2025 Israeli airstrikes destroyed 90% of all life-sustaining infrastructure, forcibly displaced 1.9M of the 2.3M inhabitants multiple times, and the israeli forces had killed at least 70,942 Palestinian people (20,179+ children), and injured/maimed at least 171,195 others, between Oct. 7, 2023 and Dec. 23, 2025 in the Gaza Strip, according to UNOCHA Humanitarian Situation Report 54. 🔗 https://www.ochaopt.org/publications/situation-reports

This Dec. 23, 2025 death toll includes at least 578 aid workers, 248 press workers, 387 United Nations (UN) employees and 900+ health care workers who were killed by Israeli forces. Over 2,340 Palestinians included in this death toll were killed by Israeli forces, while attempting to obtain food at U.S.-supported and designated GHF food sites, established on May 14, 2025. At least 440 Palestinian people (147+ children) also died as a result of malnutrition, caused by Israeli-engineered starvation in the Gaza Strip.

THE OCT. 7, 2023 ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR IN THE GAZA STRIP

Oct. 7, 2023 after more than eighty years of repeated supplication in the face of Israel’s military occupation and apartheid control of Palestine, and in response to continued deteriorating conditions of violence, deprivation, and oppression in the Palestinian territories: Gaza Strip and West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the military arm of the Hamas government elected in the Gaza Strip in 2006, launched a violent ground attack in Israel, killing 1,139 Israeli military personnel and civilians and taking 240 hostages.

In retaliation for the attack on Israel, Israeli military forces escalated their aggression in the Gaza Strip by launching an immediate, relentless campaign of land, air, and sea strikes. Dozens of U.S.-manufactured Israeli fighter jets dropped tens of thousands of U.S.-manufactured ballistic missiles and 950lb, 530lb, and 2,000lb bombs, designed for wide-area indiscriminate effects, on densely populated civilian areas, destroying entire neighborhoods and eliminating multiple generations of Palestinian people. 

Israel has conducted 670 recorded attacks on patients, health workers, health facilities, ambulances, and other aspects of healthcare in the Gaza Strip between Oct. 7, 2023, and Feb. 1, 2025, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). As of Feb. 1, 2025, only half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and 11 field hospitals remained operational, most functioning only partially. 

British surgeon Dr. Nizam Mamode testified in the UK Parliament that he had witnessed the Israeli military’s use of AI-assisted sniper drones to target fleeing unarmed Palestinian civilians — often children— and shooting them dead, after Israeli infrastructure bombardments.

Non-stop Israeli airstrikes destroyed 90% of all life-sustaining infrastructure, displaced 1.9 million of the 2.3 million inhabitants multiple times, and killed at least 70,942 Palestinian people (20,179+ children), and injured/maimed at least 171,195 others, between Oct. 7, 2023 and Dec. 23, 2025 in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH). 

This death toll includes at least 578 aid workers, 248 press workers, 387 United Nations (UN) employees and 900+ health care workers who were killed by Israeli forces. Over 2,340 Palestinians included in this death toll were killed by Israeli forces, while seeking food at U.S.-supported and designated GHF food sites, since they established on May 14, 2025. At least 440 Palestinian people (147 children) also died as a result of malnutrition, caused by Israeli-engineered starvation in the Gaza Strip, since Israel imposed a complete blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025. 

TWO CEASEFIRES IN GAZA STRIP 

▫️Jan. 19, 2025 CEASEFIRE: Jan. 19, 2025, 08:30 a.m.(06:30 GMT), after 470 days of relentless Israeli military bombardments and armed-drone attacks in Gaza, in which Israel had killed more than 47,161 Palestinians and injured/maimed 111,166 others, according to UNOCHA, Israel and Hamas agreed to a 3-phase ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. At the start of Phase 1 of the 3-phase Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Israel allowed humanitarian aid to resume, providing great relief for the Palestinian people. During Phase 1, the Israeli military killed at least 100 people in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. During Phase 1, both Israel and Hamas met their agreed-upon hostage release obligations. Civil defense workers in Gaza recovered 771 bodies of Palestinian people who had been killed by Israel prior to the ceasefire. Phase 1 of the ceasefire expired March 1, 2025, with Israel refusing to begin Phase 2.

Jan. 30, 2025, Israel PM Netanyahu issued legislation prohibiting UNRWA, the primary UN aid provider in Gaza, from providing further food and aid, and expelled them from the Gaza Strip.

Feb. 4, 2025, in support of Israel, President Trump issued EO 14199, terminating long-standing U.S. funding for both UNRWA and the UNHRC. 

March 2, 2025, PM Netanyahu reestablished complete blockade of humanitarian aid: incl. food, water, medical supplies, and fuel into the Gaza Strip.

March 4, 2025, PM Netanyahu shut off electricity in Gaza and stopped power to the last desalination plant, eliminating Gaza’s only source of clean drinking water.

March 14, 2025, the U.S. military, in what President Trump referred to as “overwhelming lethal force,” began a series of large-scale unprovoked airstrikes on the Yemen capital, killing at least 53 people and injuring hundreds because Yemen threatened to block Israeli ships in the Red Sea delivering military weapons, equipment, and aid to the Israeli military for use against the Palestinian people. 

March 18, 2025, with a “green light” from U.S. President Trump, before daylight in the early morning hours during the Muslim religious holiday of Ramadan, after only two months of ceasefire, the Israeli military resumed its war in Gaza by abruptly and violently dropping bombs on densely populated areas, killing at least 414 people in one day while they were asleep, including 174 children, and once again eliminating entire Palestinian families in a matter of hours, according to Amnesty International USA. 🔗https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/israeli-air-strikes-kill-over-400-palestinians-across-gaza-following-unilateral-resumption-of-mass-attacks/

May 14, 2025, President Trump and PM Netanyahu established a joint militarized “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF) to feed starving Palestinians. The UN and most humanitarian organizations have concluded the GHF has weaponized hunger, is operating in violation of humanitarian laws, and that the GHF food stations are “death traps.” As of Sept.  24, 2025, at least 2,531 Palestinians seeking food at these GHF stations have been killed and at least 18,531 wounded by Israeli military firing shots into crowds of civilians attempting to get sacks of flour, according to the MoH in Gaza and UNOCHA. 

June 12, 2025, PM Netanyahu launched Operation Rising Lion, a campaign of  unprovoked airstrikes against Iran. After the launch, Netanyahu publicly thanked President Trump on Israeli TV. President Trump posted on social media saying the Israeli attacks on Iran “are part of a plan” to get Iran to accept a nuclear deal, and that if they do not comply, "it will only get worse.

June 21, 2025, the U.S. military, under the direction of President Trump, without Congressional approval and despite warnings from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that “nuclear facilities must never be attacked” and from U.S. intelligence that “Iran neither possessed a nuclear weapon or a nuclear weapons program,” joined Israel PM Netanyahu and launched unprovoked U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

▫️Oct. 10, 2025 CEASEFIRE: (underway) Oct. 10, 2025, 12:00 a.m. (09:00 GMT), the first phase of a second Israel-Hamas ceasefire in the Gaza Strip began. As of Oct. 10, 2025, 67,938 Palestinian people had been killed and 170,169 injured/maimed by Israeli forces, according to the MoH in Gaza as cited by UNOCHA. 

Oct. 9, 2025, the U.S. deployed ~200 military personnel to Israel, stationed close to the Israel-Gaza Kerem Shalom boarder crossing, in support of Israeli military to help monitor the Gaza ceasefire agreement and to establish a U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) to coordinate humanitarian aid, logistics, and security assistance linked to the ceasefire. Humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip continues to be controlled by Israeli military. Israel is keeping the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border CLOSED. Israel is restricting daily aid trucks through the Israel-Gaza Kerem Shalom border crossing to only 24% of the 600 daily aid trucks agreed upon, and are specifically limiting influx of tents, caravans, fuel, and heavy equipment,— causing a deterioration in the Palestinian survival rate with the onset of winter: increased suffering, disease, and death. Most Palestinians are being forced to exist without tents, fuel, fresh food and warm dry clothing during these cold rainy months.

Oct. 15, 2025, in the five days immediately following the start of the ceasefire, 68 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, 328 Palestinians were injured, and 347 Palestinian bodies were recovered from the rubble. 

Dec. 17, 2025 the Gaza MoH stated that at least 70,668 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip and another 171,152 injured since Oct. 7, 2023. Since the ceasefire began Oct. 10, 2025, ~394 Palestinians have been killed and 1075 injured by Israeli forces, ~634 Palestinian bodies have been retrieved from under the rubble, and more than 1,500 buildings have been destroyed.

Dec 22, 2025, Al Jazeera reported that Israel has violated the terms of the ceasefire at least ~875 times since Oct 10, 2025, according to UN data. 

According to a new report by the Arava Institute, an environmental research institute based in Israel, Gaza is covered with an estimated 61 million tons of rubble, much of which contains asbestos, unexploded munitions, and unburied human remains. 

ACTIONS TAKEN BY U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL’S WAR IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Since Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Trump has five times hosted Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, a fugitive from justice, at the White House or his Florida estate, has shipped $12.7 billion in U.S. weapons to Israel, and has enacted U.S. legislation and exercised UNSC veto power to grant Israel impunity and shield its leaders from accountability, all in gross violation of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (Law 90-629), the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (Leahy Law 87-195), and the U.S. Genocide Convention Implementation Act (Proxmire Law 100-606), as follows:

Jan. 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14155, withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Jan. 20, 2025, President Trump EO 14115 rescinded sanctions on violent far-right Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian territories. The ink hadn’t dried on the EO, and the militarized Israeli settlers living illegally in the West Bank had already murdered several of their Palestinian neighbors. That same month, Israel then began a new campaign in the West Bank, bombing infrastructure and bulldozing roads to prevent Palestinian farmers from returning to their farms and facilitating the confiscation of their land by illegal Israeli settlers. 

Jan. 21, 2025, President Trump aided Israel’s  launch of operation “Iron Wall,” the violent military expansion of illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank—which had killed 110 Palestinians as of April 21, 2025, including at least 17 children—by forcing the displacement of Palestinians, demolishing their homes, and confiscating their land. 

Jan. 29, 2025, President Trump signed EO 14188, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,” directing federal agencies to pursue civil and criminal actions against students and university personnel who advocate for Palestinian liberation or criticize Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 

Feb. 4, 2025, President Trump signed EO 14199, terminating U.S. representation in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and humanitarian aid funding to UNRWA, the primary aid provider for the Palestinian territories. 

Feb. 6, 2025, President Trump signed “Emergency” EO 14203, giving Israeli PM Netanyahu and DM Gallant a “Get Out of Jail FREE Card” shielding them from prosecution for war crimes. This EO imposes sanctions on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan and others for upholding the Geneva Conventions and facilitating the ICC issuance of arrest warrants for the prosecution of PM Netanyahu and DM Gallant, and reserves the right to add additional people, which he has done. 

Feb. 7, 2025, President Trump approved $7.4B in foreign military sales (FMS) to Israel, despite appeals from Democratic Congressmen demanding a pause in accordance with NSM-20, which restricts U.S. military assistance to foreign nations when “more likely than not” those weapons will be used “to commit or facilitate violations of human rights or humanitarian laws.” The FMS consisted of $6.75B sold by Boeing and $660M sold by Lockheed Martin, containing thousands of Hellfire ballistic missiles and 950lb and 530lb “bunker buster” explosives designed to penetrate concrete shelters with wide-area indiscriminate effects. Credible evidence exists that Israel has used these munitions hundreds of times in Gaza to bombard densely populated civilian areas and kill generations of Palestinian people. 

Feb. 24, 2025, Under the direction of President Trump, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, announced that President Trump had repealed NSM-20. 

March 1, 2025, Under the direction of President Trump, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, under President Trump’s direction, bypassed Congress and issued a “declaration of emergency authority” reversing the U.S. government pause of 2,000lb bombs to Israel and shipped a $4B foreign military sales (FMS) package consisting of 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 specialized 2,000lb bombs, and 4,000 Predator warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters with wide-area and indiscriminate effects. 

March 2, 2025, President Trump gave a “green light” to Israel’s humanitarian blockade into Gaza—weaponizing death by starvation, dehydration, and contagious disease. 

March 14, 2025, President Trump, in what he referred to as “overwhelming lethal force,” began a series of large-scale unprovoked airstrikes on the Yemen capital, — a Palestinian ally; killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds more, in preemptive defense of Israeli ships in the Red Sea. 

March 18, 2025, President Trump gave a “green light” for Israel to restart violent air assaults on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and ending the Jan. 19, 2025 ceasefire; knowing U.S.-supplied “bunker buster” bombs would likely be dropped from U.S.-supplied fighter jets onto civilian populations in pre-dawn hours. According to Amnesty International, these airstrikes killed 414 Palestinians, 174 children, in the first 24hrs. As of Dec. 17, 2025 the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 70,668 Palestinians and injured 171,152 more since Oct. 7, 2023.

Sept. 18, 2025 the U.S., under President Trump, vetoed an otherwise majority approved UNSC resolution which demanded an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the lifting of all restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip”. This was the  sixth (6th) such otherwise, majority approved UNSC resolution vetoed by the U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023. The use of repeated U.S. vetos in the UNSC prevents enforcement of international laws being violated by the State of Israel and is the definition of impunity.

Nov. 17, 2025, UNSC adopted Resolution 2803, embracing a “20-point peace plan” negotiated by President Trump establishing that he himself will head the administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and granting him full control to establish a U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” and an “International Stabilization Force” to be in charge of security and disarming the Hamas resistance.

U.S.-WEAPONS SUPPLIED TO ISRAEL BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

As of Sept. 2024 an estimated $251.2B in inflation-adjusted taxpayer dollars had been provided to Israel from the U.S. government,—in the form of U.S.-manufactured weapons, since 1959.

Between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 20, 2025, under the former President Biden administration approx. $39B in U.S.-manufactured weapons had been supplied to Israel using U.S. taxpayer funding.

The U.S. State Department website states, “Since taking office the Trump Administration has approved nearly $12B in major FMS sales to Israel.” 

July  31, 2025 two additional weapons packages totaling $697 million dollars (consisting of $675M in U.S.-manufactured 2,000lb bombs + $22M in U.S.-manufactured fully automatic Colt machine guns), were approved by the U.S. Senate. 

 

 

 

 

 

As of Dec. 28, 2025, after including the two additional packages, the taxpayer-funded weapons provisions to Israel since Jan. 20, 2025 under the Trump administration equals ~$12.7 B U.S. dollars.

Bringing the value of total military assistance supplied to Israel between Oct. 7, 2023 and Dec. 28, 2025 by both Biden and Trump to approx. $51.7B U.S. taxpayer dollars.

 

 

 

 

 

MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING (MOUs): On July 19, 1999, President Bill Clinton was the first U.S. President to sign a MOU with new Israeli PM Ehud Barak—following four years of interim Israeli leadership due to the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin by an Israeli right-wing extremist upset over PM Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords with President Bill Clinton and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. 

In the MOU, President Clinton agreed to provide Israel with a “minimum of $2.7B in military assistance annually,” “subject to Congressional approval,” “for ten years,” after which there would be a “gradual phase-out of U.S. economic aid to Israel.” While the MOU is not and was not legally binding, and it was intended to be gradually phased out, several consecutive Congresses and Presidents have endorsed and increased the MOU through affirming legislation. 

Sept. 14, 2016 President Barack Obama resigned the MOU with Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, agreeing to raise the minimum to $3.8B annually for another 10-year term (2018–2028), which became effective September 30, 2018 and runs through September 30, 2028. 

This is significant because President Trump’s term ends Jan. 20, 2029, meaning he will likely be president on Sept. 30, 2028 when the current MOU’s funding period expires.

It is also important to note: Israeli PMs Rabin and Barak were both from the left-leaning Labor Party, while Israeli PM Netanyahu, who former President Barak Obama signed the agreement with and who is the current Israel PM, is from the right-leaning Likud party. While all major Israeli political parties—left, right, and center—are historically Zionist, in the sense that they support the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state, they diverge significantly is in their vision for what that state should look like, the methods they endorse for securing it, and their moral and legal boundaries regarding the occupation, settlements, and use of force in Palestine and neighboring countries. Right-leaning parties, particularly those on the far-right, tend to favor maximalist territorial claims, more aggressive military policies, and fewer concessions, negotiations, compromises to moral boundaries and human rights. 

The AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) report, “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide,” states that “Shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, the U.S. government started transferring massive amounts of weapons to Israel. By Dec. 25, 2023, Israel had received more than 10,000 tons of weapons in 244 cargo planes and 20 ships from the U.S. These transfers included more than 15,000 bombs and 50,000 artillery shells in just the first month and a half. These transfers have been deliberately shrouded in secrecy to avoid public scrutiny and prevent the Congress from exercising any meaningful oversight. Between Oct. and the beginning of March, the U.S. approved more than 100 military sales to Israel, but publicly disclosed only two sales. The Forum on the Arms Trade maintains a list of known U.S. arms transfers. Much of these weapons were purchased using U.S. taxpayers’ money through the Foreign Military Sales program, while some were direct commercial sales purchased through Israel’s own budget. An undisclosed amount of weapons was also transferred from U.S. military stockpiles already stored in Israel, known as War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I). The use of these weapons serves to further obfuscate the full picture of U.S. arms transfers, as there is no public record of these stockpiles' inventory.” 

 

 

 

 

 

The Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute, Oct. 7, 2024 report, states that “Israel has received more U.S. military aid than any other country in history”. “The U.S. has provided $251.2B in inflation-adjusted taxpayer dollars to Israel since 1959”, as of Sept. 2024. The report further states that “between Oct. 2023 and Sept. 2024 [under U.S. President Joe Biden] U.S. spending on Israel’s Military Operations totaled $22.76 billion to fund Israel’s war against Hamas in Palestine and the region.” Note: Since the report was published, former President Joe Biden released $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel on Nov. 29, 2024, and President Donald Trump released $12.7B to Israel. Bringing the total to $263.9B in inflation-adjusted taxpayer dollars has been provided from the U.S. government to the Israel government, in the form of U.S.-manufactured weapons, since 1959.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a non-profit think tank, states that most military assistance from the U.S. to Israel is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program; funds that Israel is under no obligation to repay and must use to purchase military equipment and services from U.S. weapons manufacturers. As of Oct. 2023, Israel had nearly six hundred (600) active FMF cases, totaling around $24 billion. U.S. military assistance reportedly accounts for some 15 percent of Israel’s defense budget. 

JOINT VIOLATIONS OF LAW BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES AND EVIDENCE THEREOF SINCE OCT. 7, 2023

U.S. military assistance laws, international human rights and humanitarian laws, official reports, published articles, press releases, ICC court rulings, and ICJ advisory opinions—rooted in credibly investigated facts, including on-the-ground eyewitness documentation—unequivocally establish that the State of Israel, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, other Israeli  leadership and military forces have committed extreme violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws in the Palestinian territories. These violations have been carried out using U.S.-manufactured weapons against Palestinian civilians and against the military arm of the elected Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.

These same U.S. military assistance laws, international human rights and humanitarian laws, official reports, published articles, press releases, ICC court rulings, and ICJ advisory opinions also establish that the United States, President Donald J. Trump, the 119th Congress and other U.S. leaders including leadership of the previous U.S. administration, are complicit in aiding and abetting the State of Israel and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, a fugitive from justice since Nov. 21, 2024, by failing to enforce relevant U.S. statutes governing foreign military assistance, and multiple international human rights and humanitarian laws, while continuing to supply the State of Israel with billions of dollars in U.S.–manufactured weapons and military aid. 

These U.S. military assistance laws, international human rights and humanitarian laws, official reports, published articles, press releases, and court rulings are being ignored and/or violated by both the State of Israel and the United States:

▫️The U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (1961 Leahy Law 87-195)
This law stipulates that the United States must not provide military assistance to any foreign government when there is credible evidence that gross violations of human rights and humanitarian laws have been committed using such assistance.

▫️The U.S. Arms Export Control Act (1976 Law 90-629)
This act establishes presidential reporting requirements to Congress for major military sales and the issuance of export licenses. It also requires that both the President and Congress suspend military assistance to any recipient country when strong evidence exists of violations under the Foreign Assistance Act (Leahy Law 87-195).

▫️The U.S. Genocide Convention Implementation Act (1988 Proxmire Law 100-606). Also known as the 1948 Genocide Convention Treaty (UNGA Resolution 260A), this law defines and declares genocide as a crime under international law. It also establishes the duty of all UN General Assembly member states to prevent and punish those found to be in violation.

▫️The 1949 Geneva Conventions, Fully ratified by the 94th Congress in 1975, the 1949 Geneva Conventions contain the mutually agreed upon international humanitarian laws establishing legal standards for humane treatment of civilians and combatants in war. The Geneva Convention was adopted by the United Nations in 1949, in response to the horrific crimes Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Axis nations committed during World War II. Every nation that has ratified the Geneva Conventions is bound by their laws and is legally obligated to search for and prosecute those in its territory who are suspected of committing war crimes, regardless of the nationality of the suspect or victim, or the place where the act was allegedly committed. This legal obligation exists regardless of whether the ratifying nation is also a signatory to the Rome Statute, which establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the permanent court mandated to investigate and prosecute extreme violations of human rights and humanitarian laws.

• Article 49 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions states that no “protected” person—meaning a non-combatant—should be punished for an offense they’ve not personally committed. “Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or terrorism are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.”

▫️The United Nations (UN), international system of intergovernmental organizations, founded in 1945 after WWII by fifty-one nations, has a Charter to protect the principle of universal human rights for all humans, promote world peace, and prevent future humanitarian atrocities.⁶² While the UN cannot force a sovereign country to comply with any of its assembly and agency resolutions or court opinions, its global stature and collaborative nature give weight to its decisions, and all members are expected to comply—regardless of how each nation chose to vote on a given resolution. 

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) includes 193 world nations. António Guterres is the current UN Secretary-General. UN member nations use the UN to resolve conflict and create international policy. The U.S. has dominated the UN since its inception in 1945, and for the past 26 months since Oct. 7, 2025 it has abstained or voted against several resolutions that sought to protect Palestinians, impose a weapons embargo on Israel, provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, and/or hold the State of Israel to account for violations of international laws. The U.S. is also not in compliance with most of the following UN communications and resolutions.

• Dec. 10, 1948 UNGA adopted Resolution 217A  - The International Bill of Human Rights, which consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
• Nov. 3, 1950 UNGA adopted resolution 377 A, the "Uniting for Peace" resolution, after 14 days of discussions, (52/5 with 2 abstentions. U.S. Yes vote), which states that in any cases where the UNSC, because of a lack of unanimity among its five permanent members, fails to act as required to maintain international security and peace, the UNGA shall consider the matter immediately and issue appropriate recommendations to UNGA for collective measures, including the use of armed force when necessary, in order to maintain or restore international security and peace.
• Sept. 18, 2024 UNGA adopted Resolution ES-10/24 – (124/14 with 43 abstentions. U.S. NO vote), calling for an immediate Israeli ceasefire, an end to Israel’s occupation within 30 days, and the immediate end of all weapons shipments and military aid to Israel.
• Sept. 27, 2024 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated before the UNGA: “The speed and scale of the killing and destruction in Gaza are unlike anything in my years as Secretary-General. Nothing can also justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Over the past year, virtually the entire population of Gaza has been displaced — many of them several times — with nowhere safe to go. Half of the homeless are children. All are surviving in appalling conditions with very limited access to food, water, sanitation, shelter, and health care. All are in constant fear for their lives. We can't go on like this, in a world of impunity where violations and abuses threaten the very foundation of international law and the UN Charter.” Too many governments, he warned, "feel entitled to a 'get out of jail free' card. They can turn a blind eye to international rights conventions, or the decisions of international courts. They can thumb their nose at international humanitarian law. They can invade another country, lay waste to all society, and nothing will happen."
• Oct. 11, 2024 Fifty-two (52) UNGA members sent a formal letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling for an “arms embargo on Israel.” Signatories included Türkiye, China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine, Brazil, the Arab League, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
• Dec. 10, 2024 UNGA adopted Resolution 217A, proclaiming a “common standard of human rights for all peoples and all nations, both among the peoples of Member nations themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.” All member nations are obligated to comply with these standards, regardless of how they chose to vote on the resolution.
• Dec. 12, 2024 UNGA adopted Resolution ES-10/L.32 (158/9 votes – 13 abstentions, U.S. NO vote), calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and respect from member nations for the work of the UN’s humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Notably, the U.S. was the only country in the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized nations that opposed the resolution.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has five (5) permanent members: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States, that have the right to veto any UNSC resolution; meaning any one member can block an otherwise unanimous decision approved by the majority. The veto power in the UNSC has few limits and provides significant control over the power of the membership majority. For example, the Palestine Territory remains a non-member observer, rather than a sovereign State of Palestine with voting rights, largely because the U.S. consistently blocks resolutions in the UNSC by using its veto power. The U.S. has used its veto power five (5) times since Oct. 7, 2023, against otherwise majority or unanimously favored UNSC resolutions designed to foster peace in the  Palestinian territories.

• March 25, 2024 the UNSC adopted Resolution 2728, demanding “an immediate ceasefire and unconditional release of all hostages.”
• June 10, 2024 the UNSC adopted Resolution 2735, “Urging Israel and Hamas to accept the proposed hostage exchange plan and implementation of a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, and the initiation of a multi-year reconstruction in support of a two-state solution.” Israel refused to agree to the terms presented in this resolution and continued airstrikes in Gaza.
• Nov. 17, 2025, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2803, (13-0 with two abstentions: Russia/China) embracing the Trump “20-point peace plan”, establishing new colonial rule over 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza to a U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” headed by President Trump himself, that will oversee the administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and establishes an “International Stabilization Force” in charge of security and disarming the Hamas resistance — not a UN peacekeeping force that will protect the Palestinian people.

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is responsible for monitoring and upholding human rights throughout the world by overseeing the implementation of the International Bill of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention Treaty. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is responsible for monitoring conflict situations, investigating human rights violations, and submitting recommendations to the UNHRC for action. The UNHRC is mandated to initiate investigations of human rights violations in ICJ, based on OHCHR data, for final advisory opinions and instruction to the UNGA membership.

• Feb. 4, 2025, U.S. President Trump signed EO 14199, terminating U.S. funding and participation in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and UNRWA, the primary humanitarian aid provider for the Palestinian territories.
• April 5, 2024 the UNHRC adopted Resolution 55/28, calling on UNGA membership to “cease the sale, transfer, and diversion of arms, munitions, and other military equipment to Israel.”

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the UN, is responsible for upholding the laws of the 1948 Genocide Convention Treaty (R.260A) and the 1948 International Bill of Human Rights (R.217). 

• July 19, 2024, the ICJ published a Landmark Advisory Opinion on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, which states unequivocally that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is "unlawful," in violation of Article IV of the 1948 Genocide Convention, and declared that Israel is obligated to bring its occupation to an end completely and "as rapidly as possible." The ICJ went on to say that Israel was “in denial of Palestinian self-determination and the UN prohibition against the acquisition of territory by force” and ordered Israel to "cease immediately" all new settlement activity and to evacuate all of its settlers from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. This ICJ decision calls for an immediate arms embargo by UNGA member States against Israel, and an end to all arms transfers to Israel from arms companies, and the end to all illegal occupation and racial segregation and apartheid policies, or risk prosecution for human rights violations.

▫️The International Criminal Court (ICC), the only permanent international world court, is mandated under the Rome Statute to investigate gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws. 

• May 20, 2024, the ICC completed an extensive investigation confirming substantial credible evidence of extreme violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws committed by Israel against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, and the prosecutor submitted applications for arrest warrants recommending the prosecution of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Defense Minister Gallant, and a Hamas commander (assassinated by the Israeli military) to the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I, for charges of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity,” that include “causing extermination,” “causing starvation as a method of war through the denial of humanitarian relief supplies,” and “deliberately targeting civilians in conflict.” 
• Nov. 21, 2024, the ICC Justices of Pre-Trial Chamber I confirmed its jurisdiction over the Palestine matter and issued its final ruling that sufficient evidence exists to prosecute Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” committed by the Israeli military in the occupied Gaza Strip from at least Oct. 8, 2023, until at least May 20, 2024, and issued arrest warrants for their apprehension and extradition to the Hague-based ICC for prosecution as required by international law. 
• Jan. 3, 2025, in a failed attempt by the 119th U.S. Congress to obstruct international justice, all Republican members of the House signed the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (H.R.23)” to sanction the ICC for doing its job, and to shield Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israel DM Yoav Gallant from prosecution by the ICC.

▫️The U.S. National Security Memorandum (NSM-20) “Safeguards and Accountability with Respect to Transferred Defense Articles and Defense Services,” executed by then-President Joe Biden on Feb. 8, 2024, restricts the U.S. government from providing military assistance to foreign nations when it is “more likely than not” that those weapons will be used to “commit, facilitate the commission of, or aggravate the risk of specified violations.” Those violations include “grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, including attacks intentionally directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such,” and “other serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law,” and holds the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense responsible for ensuring that all military assistance is being used in a manner consistent with the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (Law 90-629), the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (Leahy Law 87-195), and NSM-18.

• Feb. 24, 2025, the day after a group of Democratic Senators voted against newly elected President Donald Trump’s authorized weapons shipment of 2,000lb bombs to Israel, citing violations of NSM-20, Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated that President Trump had “repealed” NSM-20, and the weapons were shipped.

▫️April 29, 2024 Amnesty International USA “SUBMISSION TO NSM-20” was provided to U.S. President Joe Biden and the Executive Branch and the 118th U.S. Congress in response to U.S. NSM-20. The Amnesty International submission substantiates, with credible documentation, that “Israeli military is using U.S.-made weapons, munitions, and other articles sent to the government of Israel, to commit serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and in violation of US law and policy in Gaza.”

• Dec. 5, 2024 – Amnesty International USA Report: You Feel Like You Are Subhuman: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, quotes the Secretary-General of Amnesty International: “Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.”
• March 18, 2025 – Amnesty International USA Press release stated: “Today is a desperately dark day for humanity. Israel brazenly resumed its devastating bombing campaign in Gaza, killing at least 414 people in their sleep, including 174 children, and again wiping out entire families in a matter of hours.”

▫️Oct. 7, 2024 Jewish Voice For Peace (JVP), press release “A year of horror, grief and outrage,” states: “For decades, the U.S. has helped Israel systematically violate international law with impunity. The Israeli government has shown — time and again — that it does not respond to warnings or stern words. The U.S. must end its complicity in the Israeli government’s war crimes, and stop violating its own existing laws and policies by stopping the flow of weapons to Israel. As Americans, our tax dollars fund the bombs that the Israeli government drops on Gaza, in Lebanon, and across the entire region. As Jews, many of us are the descendants of those who survived genocide and ethnic cleansing. Our ancestors taught us to never be bystanders in the face of injustice. We are all responsible for taking action to change the course of history and to defend the millions of lives that hang in the balance. We continue to demand a full weapons embargo now. This fragile respite will not mean an end to Israeli genocide or to the violent status quo of Israeli apartheid.”

▫️Oct. 10, 2024 Suzanna Arundhati Roy, Indian author best known for her interrogations on the meaning of justice, freedom and equality, reflects on the Israeli regime and speaks out in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

▫️Nov. 7, 2024 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report Incendiary Weapons: Call for Immediate Action alerts the world to “evidence that incendiary weapons are being used by Israel to cause excruciating burns, respiratory damage, and lifelong suffering of people in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.”

• Dec. 19, 2024 Human Rights Watch (HRW) 179-page Report Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza concluded that Israel is intentionally committing “one of the five acts of genocide” under the Genocide Convention.
  Jan. 16, 2025 – Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2025, states: “The Israeli military killed, wounded, starved, and forcibly displaced Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2024, and destroyed their homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure at a scale unprecedented in recent history. All countries that provide weapons to Israel, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, should suspend weapons transfers due to the Israeli military's repeated, unlawful attacks on civilians.”
• Feb. 4, 2025 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Press release states: “Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses: US-Supplied Weapons Linked to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza.”

▫️Nov. 14, 2024 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published article: The Middle East’s New War of Attrition. “The region is now plagued by immense human suffering and catastrophic material and moral losses, pushing it to the edge of collapse. This dangerous trajectory threatens the collective stability, peace, and development of the Middle East and risks extending a war of attrition with no clear end in sight. Policies and actions of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli government, which rejects the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and to establish an independent state along the 1967 borders. This government has employed military force to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, subjugate its population, and facilitate settler expansion into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, thereby undermining the peaceful solution of the conflict envisioned in the Oslo Accords.”

▫️Dec. 19, 2024 Doctors Without Borders Report Gaza: Life in a Death Trap, states: “Israel has targeted and destroyed Gaza’s health system, including attacks on medical humanitarian aid groups.” The report details how Israel has “systematically dismantled hospitals in Gaza, leaving 19 of the hospitals in the region out of service and 17 only partially functional, with three of the latter rendered inaccessible,” and that “what medical teams have witnessed on the ground throughout this conflict is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations who conclude that genocide is taking place in Gaza,” and that “Israel’s deprivation of water for Palestinians in Gaza is one of the five acts of genocide.”

▫️Sept. 16, 2025 Al Jazeera English, report, states that In the first two weeks of Sept. 2025, the Israel military conducted over 100 bombings in five neighboring countries, expanding its military attacks thousands of kilometres from home. Al Jazeera's AJ Labs looks at how Israel is stretching its war on Gaza far beyond its borders.

ASSERTION OF U.S. COMPLICITY 

The U.S. Executive Branch and the U.S. Congress, despite having received sufficient formal notice, beginning April 29, 2024 in the form of an Amnesty International USA-Submission to NSM-20 ³³; detailing gross violations of domestic and international laws being committed by the military forces of the State of Israel, using U.S.-manufactured and supplied weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip; the United States has vetoed six (6) otherwise, majority approved UNSC resolutions demanding protections for Palestinians, accountability for violations of international law by the State of Israel, and/or a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, and has continued to provide full diplomatic support and a total of ~$51.7 billion in U.S.-manufactured weapons to the State of Israel, through U.S. taxpayer funded military assistance programs between Oct. 7, 2023 and December 23, 2025.

April 30, 2024 point-in-time measure: One day after Amnesty International USA provided the Submission to NSM-20 to U.S. President Joe Biden and the 118th U.S. Congress, Israeli military forces had killed at least 34,568 Palestinian people and injured/maimed at least 77,765 others in the Gaza Strip, between Oct. 7, 2013 and April 30, 2024, according to the Palestinian MoH and UNOCHA.

Dec. 23, 2025 point-in-time measure: Israeli airstrikes destroyed 90% of all life-sustaining infrastructure, forcibly displaced 1.9  million of the 2.3 million inhabitants multiple times, and killed at least 70,942 Palestinian people (20,179+ children), and injured/maimed at least 171,195 others, between Oct. 7, 2023 and Dec. 23, 2025 in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH). This death toll includes at least 578 aid workers, 248 press workers, 387 United Nations (UN) employees and 900+ health care workers who were killed by Israeli forces. Over 2,340 Palestinians included in this death toll were killed by Israeli forces, while attempting to obtain food at U.S.-supported and designated GHF food sites, established on May 14, 2025. At least 440 Palestinian people (147 children) also died as a result of malnutrition, caused by Israeli-engineered starvation in the Gaza Strip.

Millions of U.S. citizens, foreign policy experts and legal scholars, several U.S. Congressional members, at least 12 former high level U.S. government officials (who resigned due to U.S. foreign policy), the justices of the ICC and the ICJ, human rights groups, humanitarian aid agencies and intergovernmental health organizations—are closely aligned in their conclusion that Israel, the occupying power in the Palestinian territories, is in violation of U.S. and international Law, by its systematic apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people— and that the U.S. is complicit in its facilitation of the inordinate number of civilian killings, life-altering injuries, and civilian displacements inflicted in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Oct. 7, 2023, and its outright disregard for the protections of the Palestinian people and their rightful self-determination to survive and rebuild their lives in their homeland, amidst the apocalyptic aftermath of pollution, contagious disease, lack of infrastructure, and Israel’s continued military and illegal settler hostilities and blockades of sufficient food, water, fuel, medical supplies, tents, pre-fab housing units, heavy machinery, and building supplies.

CONCLUSION

The United States is knowingly complicit in the facilitation of the human rights violations being committed by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, and the normalization of the use of military occupation, starvation, genocide, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing of a human population, as legitimate weapons for annexation of land and resources, while enabling and encouraging further such atrocities worldwide.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF

We the People respectfully and lawfully demand that:

The President of the United States will immediately impose an indefinite suspension of all military assistance and weapons, including foreign military sales (FMS), direct commercial sales (DCS), security sector assistance (SSA), foreign military financing (FMF), and transfers of U.S. government-owned defense articles, services, and technical and surveillance data; including a freeze on all undisbursed military assistance and weapons to the State of Israel, whether authorized and appropriated by Congress pursuant to: U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (1961 Leahy Law 87-195), and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (1976 Law 90-629), the Sept. 14, 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period Sept. 30, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2028, all applicable U.S. National Security Memoranda governing arms transfers, and all relevant UN resolutions.

The 119th United States Congress will immediately exercise its constitutional oversight authority to enforce all statutory prohibitions on arms transfers, and investigate and address any failure of non-compliance pursuant to: U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (1961 Leahy Law 87-195), and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act (1976 Law 90-629), the Sept. 14, 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period Sept. 30, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2028, and all applicable U.S. National Security Memoranda governing arms transfers, and block or revoke all current and future military assistance to the State of Israel. The U.S. Congress will further ensure that the executive branch is in compliance with its enforcement obligations pursuant to its obligations under the U.S. constitution, and relevant U.S. statutes governing foreign military assistance, and the multiple international human rights and humanitarian laws and court rulings, and the relevant United Nations resolutions.

The U.S. President and the Congress will henceforth respect, uphold and reinforce the binding human rights and humanitarian obligations, under the Genocide Convention Implementation Act (1988 Proxmire Law 100-606), 1949 Geneva Conventions, the International Bill of Human Rights, the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the decisions of both the ICJ and the ICC, and immediately cease all actions that obstruct international justice, including the failure to stop military weapons shipments to the State of Israel, and the efforts to sanction and undermine the ICC, and to shield Israeli leaders accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, from prosecution by the ICC.

The United States will henceforth join the growing number of nations—including Italy, Japan, Spain, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium—that have suspended or restricted arms transfers to the State of Israel in response to credible evidence of grave breaches of international law.

RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

“We the People” reserve all rights to pursue additional legal, legislative, and international remedies should the United States government leaders continue to act in violation of its domestic and international legal obligations.

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The United States is ranked 132 out of 163 nations in the 2024 Global Peace Index (GPI), a two-place drop from 2023.

The State of Israel is ranked 155 out of 163 nations in the 2024 Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks, an 11-place drop from 2023.