Sens. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) launched a invoice on Tuesday focusing on a bunch they stated was concerned within the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel for sanctions.
The Accountability for Terrorist Perpetrators of October seventh Act, additionally launched final yr by Reps. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), David Kustoff (R-Tenn.), Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Brad Schneider (D-Sick.), requires sanctions to be put in place by the president in opposition to the Fashionable Resistance Committees group.
The senators stated of their invoice that the Fashionable Resistance Committees took half within the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel that began the latest struggle in Gaza and “regularly carried out terror attacks against Israelis, Americans, and Palestinians.”
“The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) is the third-largest terrorist organization in Gaza and another puppet of Iran,” Ricketts stated in a Tuesday assertion.
“Despite decades of attacks against Americans and Israelis, including on October 7th, the PRC has yet to be properly sanctioned for its barbarism. This bill will help hold accountable every terrorist that participated in the October 7th attacks,” he added.
Among the many sanctions known as for within the invoice are sanctions focusing on property transactions and visa standing.
“For years, the Popular Resistance Committees have carried out terrorist attacks against Israelis, Americans, and Palestinians,” Schiff additionally stated within the Tuesday launch. “They were willing and cruel participants with Hamas during the horrific October 7th massacre, killing innocent Israelis and taking and holding hostages after that terrible attack.”
Sherman, Kustoff, McCaul and Schneider have been joined by Reps. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) of their reintroduction of the invoice on the Home facet Tuesday.
