S. 5589 — No United States Aid for Terrorism Act

This section states congressional findings that Hamas killed approximately 1,200 people and took 250 hostage in its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, including 46 United States citizens, and that the United States has provided more than $7.8 billion in bilateral assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since 1993. It further finds significant human rights issues involving unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, restrictions on expression, antisemitism, trafficking, and child labor by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

This section defines "appropriate congressional committees" as the Senate and House committees on foreign relations and appropriations, and "Palestinian governing entity" as the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, their agencies or instrumentalities, and any successor or affiliated entity exercising governmental authority over the West Bank or Gaza.

This section requires the Secretary of State to submit a report within 30 days to the appropriate congressional committees on the human rights practices of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and any other Palestinian governing entity in the West Bank and Gaza. It prohibits direct US assistance, loan guarantees, or debt relief to those entities or to any international organization providing them assistance, unless the President certifies that the entity has publicly recognized Israel, renounced terrorism, purged terrorist ties from security services, ended incitement funding, renounced Hamas and the October 7, 2023 attacks, and honored prior diplomatic agreements.

This section preserves all existing federal restrictions and limitations on assistance to the Palestinian Authority or any other Palestinian governing entity, unless the Act expressly provides otherwise.