HR3045-119

What This Bill Does

The West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025 creates a sanctions regime for foreign persons tied to violence or destabilizing conduct in the West Bank. The President must block property under IEEPA and prohibit transactions for foreign persons responsible for or complicit in threatening peace, security, or stability; acts or threats of violence against civilians; forced displacement; property destruction; private seizure or dispossession of property; material support for blocked persons; ownership or control by blocked persons; or terrorism affecting the West Bank. The bill also makes covered aliens inadmissible, ineligible for visas and immigration benefits, and subject to immediate visa revocation. It includes exceptions or waivers for U.N. headquarters obligations, important U.S. law enforcement objectives, and determinations that entry is not contrary to U.S. interests. Treasury, consulting State, must report to relevant foreign affairs, finance, and banking committees within 90 days and every 90 days thereafter, naming sanctioned persons.

Who Benefits and How

Palestinian civilians in the West Bank benefit from sanctions aimed at violence, displacement pressure, property destruction, and dispossession. Israeli security interests benefit if sanction pressure reduces destabilizing settler or extremist violence that the findings say threatens Israel. U.S. foreign policy officials benefit from a statutory tool aligned with two-state-solution and regional-stability objectives. Congressional foreign affairs committees benefit from quarterly implementation reports naming sanctioned persons. U.S. financial institutions benefit from clear property-blocking rules that identify prohibited transactions.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Foreign persons engaged in West Bank violence face blocked property, transaction bans, visa ineligibility, and possible visa revocation. Material supporters of sanctioned persons face sanctions if they provide financial, material, technological, goods, or services support. Entities owned by sanctioned persons can have U.S.-linked property blocked. Treasury must implement blocking sanctions and report every 90 days. State Department visa officers and DHS immigration officers must administer inadmissibility, visa revocation, parole limits, and waiver decisions.

Key Provisions

• Requires IEEPA property-blocking sanctions for covered West Bank violence, displacement, property seizure, support, and terrorism conduct.
• Bars covered aliens from visas, admission, parole, and other immigration benefits.
• Provides narrow exceptions or waivers for U.N. obligations, law enforcement objectives, and U.S. interest determinations.
• Directs Treasury, in consultation with State, to report implementation and sanctioned names every 90 days.