Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring,

That the 81st General Convention declares that there is no military solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people and calls on Hamas and Israel to abandon violence, initiate and honor a permanent ceasefire, and release all Israeli hostages and Palestinian political prisoners as a means to resolving this 76-year-old conflict, and be it further

Resolved, That this Convention, noting that the International Court of Justice has launched an investigation into charges of genocide by Israel, laments with enormous grief the horrendous toll of civilian deaths and injuries, vast destruction of infrastructure, starvation leading to malnutrition among children resulting in unnecessary deaths and permanent damage to the physical well being of hundreds of thousands, loss of medical services, and no safe havens for a fleeing population in Gaza, affecting especially women and children, thus creating fear, distress and misery that will linger for decades, and therefore be it further

Resolved, That this Convention notes that the conflict can never be reconciled while 4,500,000+ Palestinians remain under occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, a reality that breeds resentment and rage among Palestinians, especially its young people, which leads to armed resistance while giving illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank motivation to continue their ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population by destroying their villages and agricultural life, and be it further

Resolved, That this Convention thereby calls on the United Nations, supported by the United States, European Union, and the Arab League, to fulfill its obligations incurred since 1948 to create a sovereign state for Palestinians, to include rebuilding Gaza while ensuring previously secure approved borders by the UN and assuring permanent security for Israel, which may later lead to one bi-national state as the parties may agree, and be it further

Resolved, That this Convention direct the Office of Government Relations to send a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and chairs and vice chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and other officials as OGR might identify.