Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

November 15, 2025

This is House Resolution 876, Introduced on November 13, 2025

• Whereas the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948;

• Whereas the United States played a key role in drafting the Genocide Convention, ratified the convention on November 5, 1988, and remains a party to the convention today;

• Whereas, under the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide is committed when one or more categories of underlying acts are committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such, namely— 

  (1) killing members of the group;

  (2) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

  (3) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

  (4) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or

  (5) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group;

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaks about ending the Gaza genocide as medical professionals and activists look on, at the House Triangle on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2025.

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