Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank, 7605-7608 [2024-02354]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7605-7608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02354]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 24 / Monday, February 5, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14115 of February 1, 2024

                
Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining 
                Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) 
                (NEA), section 212(f) and section 215(a) of the 
                Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 
                1182(f) and 8 U.S.C. 1185(a)), and section 301 of title 
                3, United States Code,

                I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States 
                of America, find that the situation in the West Bank--
                in particular high levels of extremist settler 
                violence, forced displacement of people and villages, 
                and property destruction--has reached intolerable 
                levels and constitutes a serious threat to the peace, 
                security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, 
                Israel, and the broader Middle East region. These 
                actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the 
                United States, including the viability of a two-state 
                solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can 
                attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and 
                freedom. They also undermine the security of Israel and 
                have the potential to lead to broader regional 
                destabilization across the Middle East, threatening 
                United States personnel and interests. For these 
                reasons, these actions constitute an unusual and 
                extraordinary threat to the national security and 
                foreign policy of the United States. I hereby declare a 
                national emergency to deal with that threat.

                Accordingly, I hereby order:

                Section 1. All property and interests in property that 
                are in the United States, that hereafter come within 
                the United States, or that are or hereafter come within 
                the possession or control of any United States person, 
                including any foreign branch, of the following persons 
                are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, 
                withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

                    (a) any foreign person determined by the Secretary 
                of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
                Treasury, or the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
                consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or 
indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following:

  (A) actions--including directing, enacting, implementing, enforcing, or 
failing to enforce policies--that threaten the peace, security, or 
stability of the West Bank; or

  (B) planning, ordering, otherwise directing, or participating in any of 
the following actions affecting the West Bank:

(1) an act of violence or threat of violence targeting civilians;

(2) efforts to place civilians in reasonable fear of violence with the 
purpose or effect of necessitating a change of residence to avoid such 
violence;

(3) property destruction; or

(4) seizure or dispossession of property by private actors;

(ii) to be or have been a leader or official of:

  (A) an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or 
whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in 
subsections (a) or (b) of this section related to the leader's or 
official's tenure; or

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  (B) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to this order as a result of activities relating to the leader's 
or official's tenure;

(iii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in 
support of, any person blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iv) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for 
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person blocked pursuant to 
this order; or

                    (b) any foreign person determined by the Secretary 
                of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
                Treasury:

(i) to have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose a significant 
risk of committing, or to have participated in training to commit acts of 
terrorism affecting the West Bank; or

(ii) to be a leader or official of an entity sanctioned pursuant to 
subsection (b)(i) of this section.

                Sec. 2. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in 
                regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may 
                be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 
                any contract entered into or any license or permit 
                granted before the date of this order.

                Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                include:

                    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of 
                any person whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this order; and
                    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services from any such person.

                Sec. 4. (a) The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant 
                entry into the United States of noncitizens determined 
                to meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of 
                this order would be detrimental to the interests of the 
                United States, and the entry of such persons into the 
                United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is 
                hereby suspended, except when the Secretary of State or 
                the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, 
                determines that the person's entry would not be 
                contrary to the interests of the United States, 
                including when the Secretary of State or the Secretary 
                of Homeland Security, as appropriate, so determines, 
                based on a recommendation of the Attorney General, that 
                the person's entry would further important United 
                States law enforcement objectives.

                    (b) The Secretary of State shall implement this 
                order as it applies to visas pursuant to such 
                procedures as the Secretary of State, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of Homeland Security, may establish.
                    (c) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
                implement this order as it applies to the entry of 
                noncitizens pursuant to such procedures as the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with 
                the Secretary of State, may establish.
                    (d) Such persons shall be treated by this section 
                in the same manner as persons covered by section 1 of 
                Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry 
                of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council 
                Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers 
                Act Sanctions).

                Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has 
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation 
                of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set 
                forth in this order is prohibited.

                    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
                prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

                Sec. 6. I hereby determine that the making of donations 
                of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) 
                of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) by, to, or for the benefit 
                of any person whose property and interests in property 
                are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously 
                impair my ability to

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                deal with the national emergency declared in this 
                order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided 
                by section 1 of this order.

                Sec. 7. For the purposes of this order:

                    (a) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
                subgroup, or other organization;
                    (b) the term ``noncitizen'' means any person who is 
                not a citizen or noncitizen national of the United 
                States;
                    (c) the term ``person'' means an individual or 
                entity;
                    (d) the term ``United States person'' means any 
                United States citizen, lawful permanent resident, 
                entity organized under the laws of the United States or 
                any jurisdiction within the United States (including 
                foreign branches), or any person in the United States; 
                and
                    (e) the term ``terrorism'' means an activity that:

(i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or 
infrastructure; and

(ii) appears to be intended:

  (A) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

  (B) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; 
or

  (C) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, 
assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.

                Sec. 8. For those persons whose property and interests 
                in property are blocked or affected by this order who 
                might have a constitutional presence in the United 
                States, I find that because of the ability to transfer 
                funds and other assets instantaneously, prior notice to 
                such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this 
                order would render those measures ineffectual. I 
                therefore determine that for these measures to be 
                effective in addressing the national emergency declared 
                in this order, there need be no prior notice of a 
                listing or determination made pursuant to this order.

                Sec. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is authorized to take such 
                actions, including the promulgation of rules and 
                regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the 
                President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the 
                purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury 
                may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of 
                these functions within the Department of the Treasury. 
                All executive departments and agencies of the United 
                States shall take all appropriate measures within their 
                authority to implement this order.

                Sec. 10. Nothing in this order shall prohibit 
                transactions for the conduct of the official business 
                of the Federal Government or the United Nations 
                (including its specialized agencies, programs, funds, 
                and related organizations) by employees, grantees, and 
                contractors thereof.

                Sec. 11. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is authorized to submit 
                recurring and final reports to the Congress on the 
                national emergency declared in this order, consistent 
                with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and 
                section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).

                Sec. 12. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 
                to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    February 1, 2024.

[FR Doc. 2024-02354
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