Nine Americans killed. No accountability. Tell the Senate to vote YES.

We call on the United States Senate to adopt the Van Hollen-Kaine-Sanders resolution requiring the State Department to report on Israel's human rights practices in the West Bank. We thank Senators Warren and Markey for cosponsoring it, and we ask them to press their colleagues to vote YES.

Since January 2022, at least nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers or Israeli security forces: Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Amer Rabee, Saifullah Musallet, Khamis Ayyada, and Nasrallah Abu Siyam (Draft S.Res., 119th Cong., 2d Sess., introduced Aug. 27, 2026). Among them were a 78-year-old man dragged from his car at a checkpoint and left bound and blindfolded on the ground, where he died; a journalist shot in the head while wearing a vest marking her as press; and three boys aged 14, 16, and 17 (S.Res. 2026). Not one of these killings has produced accountability from the Israeli government or from our own (S.Res. 2026).

Even the Trump administration's own ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, called the killing of 20-year-old Saifullah Musallet a criminal and terrorist act and said there must be accountability (Amb. Huckabee, July 15, 2025, quoted in S.Res. 2026). There has been none.

Americans are also being detained. Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old from Florida, was held nine months in pretrial detention and denied contact with his family; U.S. embassy officials and lawyers who saw him reported that he had lost close to a quarter of his body weight, contracted scabies, and been beaten (S.Res. 2026). Sama Safi, a 20-year-old student swept up in raids on Birzeit University in June 2026, and Adam Karakrah, a 16-year-old arrested in July 2026 and held on an entirely new case moments before his family's bail was to free him, both remain in Israeli military prisons (S.Res. 2026).

This is the system Palestinians live under every day. Palestinian children in the West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts while Israeli children living beside them fall under civil law (S.Res. 2026). Israel held 351 children as of December 2025 (Israel Prison Service, cited in S.Res. 2026) and has detained roughly 13,000 Palestinian children since 2000 (S.Res. 2026). Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting any Palestinian detainee (S.Res. 2026). Between October 2023 and October 2025, more than 1,000 Palestinians, including 210 children, were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (UN OCHA, cited in S.Res. 2026).

Almost no one is held responsible. Of the police investigations into settler violence that Yesh Din has monitored since 2005, 93.6 percent closed without an indictment, and only 3 percent ended in a conviction (Yesh Din, Data Sheet 2005–2025, Feb. 2026). In 64 percent of files, police confirmed a crime had occurred but closed the case because they could not identify the offender (Yesh Din 2026). No one has been convicted for the death of any Palestinian civilian killed by settlers in the West Bank since 2020 (S.Res. 2026).

Senators Chris Van Hollen, Tim Kaine, and Bernie Sanders, joined by eight colleagues including Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, have introduced a resolution under Section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act (Sen. Van Hollen, press release, Aug. 27, 2026). It requires the State Department to give Congress an unclassified accounting of these killings and of the investigations into them, and a full assessment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention: how many are held, on what charges, whether they have lawyers, whether they are mistreated or tortured, and how their treatment compares to U.S. juvenile detention standards (S.Res. 2026, Sec. 1(b)). If the resolution passes and the administration fails to deliver within 30 days, most U.S. security assistance to Israel is prohibited by law (Sen. Van Hollen, Aug. 27, 2026).

Congress has held this power since 1976 and has almost never used it. When a similar resolution reached the floor in January 2024, only eleven senators voted for it (U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 118-2-8, Jan. 16, 2024).

Sign to tell the Senate: vote yes, and stop funding impunity.

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