Israel attacks Beirut, targets Hezbollah chief of staff

The IDF said Haitham Ali Tabataba'i was killed in the strike.

Last Updated: November 23, 2025, 4:56 PM EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials reiterated their intention to block future Palestinian statehood ahead of the United Nations Security Council vote to authorize the U.S. plan for post-war Gaza on Monday.

There are three remaining deceased hostages in Gaza. Israeli authorities have been releasing the bodies of Palestinians in exchange for the return of hostage remains.

The ceasefire is broadly holding in Gaza, with Israeli forces inside the strip having pulled back to the so-called "yellow line." Still, renewed Israeli strikes have killed dozens of Palestinians in the past week.

Elsewhere, Israel is continuing strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and on Sunday launched an airstrike in the capital Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces is also continuing raids in parts of the occupied West Bank.

Nov 18, 2025, 3:31 AM EST

Trump says Gaza Board of Peace members to be announced in coming weeks

President Donald Trump celebrated the U.N. vote approving the U.S. plan for an international stabilization force in Gaza in a post to social media on Monday night.

Palestinians sit next to a fire in Gaza City, on Nov. 17, 2025.
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"Congratulations to the World on the incredible Vote of the United Nations Security Council, just moments ago, acknowledging and endorsing the BOARD OF PEACE, which will be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World," the president wrote.

"This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations, will lead to further Peace all over the World, and is a moment of true Historic proportion!," Trump said.

Trump thanked the countries that backed the vote and worked with the U.S. to secure the peace deal. Trump added that "members of the Board, and many more exciting announcements, will be made in the coming weeks."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Nov 18, 2025, 3:16 AM EST

Hamas rejects Gaza resolution, says plan facilitates 'occupation'

The U.S.-led plan for Gaza authorized by the U.N. Security Council on Monday "does not meet the level of our Palestinian people's political and humanitarian demands and rights," Hamas said in a statement published online on Monday.

Hamas militants head east of Gaza City to search for the bodies of hostages, on Nov. 13, 2025.
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Hamas said it rejects the plan for an "international guardianship mechanism" to oversee the strip, alleging that the blueprint "imposes a mechanism to achieve the occupation's objectives" and "detaches the Gaza Strip from the rest of the Palestinian geography."

Hamas also insisted that it would not disarm, saying the issue cannot be separated from "a political path that ensures the end of the occupation, the establishment of the state and self-determination."

Involving any future international force in attempts to disarm Hamas "strips it of its neutrality and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation," the group added.

Nov 18, 2025, 2:55 AM EST

Palestinian MFA welcomes UN resolution, urges two-state solution

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry -- which represents the Palestinian Authority government that exercises partial control over the West Bank -- said in a statement on Tuesday that it is ready to work with the U.S. on the Gaza peace plan authorized by a United Nations Security Council vote on Monday.

Ambassadors and representatives to the United Nations meet at the U.N. Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, on Nov. 17, 2025.
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The "state of Palestine welcomes the U.N. resolution on Gaza and affirms its readiness to support implementation and assume its full responsibilities," the ministry said in a post to X.

The vote, the ministry wrote, affirmed "the establishment of a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance, and the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state."

The statement urged the immediate implementation of the plan "in a manner that ensures the return of normal life, protects our people in the Gaza Strip, prevents displacement, secures the full withdrawal of the occupying forces, enables reconstruction, halts the undermining of the two-state solution and prevents annexation."

Despite sustained Israeli opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state or the involvement of the PA in the future governance of Gaza, the ministry said it is ready to cooperate with the U.S., the European Union and regional Arab states to help implement the U.S.-backed resolution authorized on Monday.

The U.S.-led plan for Gaza also says that the PA must undergo significant reforms before it can be considered for any future role in Gaza.

The ministry said the plan should be implemented "in a way that ends the suffering of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and advances the political path leading to peace, security, and stability between Palestinians and Israelis, based on the two-state solution grounded in international law and international legitimacy."

"The state of Palestine renewed its affirmation of its readiness to assume its full responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, within the framework of the unity of land, people, and institutions, considering the strip an integral part of the state of Palestine," it added.

Nov 17, 2025, 7:20 PM EST

Adoption of US-led resolution 'important step' in ceasefire: UN

The adoption of the U.S.-led resolution on Gaza by the Union Nations Security Council is an "an important step in the consolidation of the ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas, the UN Secretary General spokesperson in a statement Monday.

"It is essential now to translate the diplomatic momentum into concrete and urgently needed steps on the ground," the spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said in the statement.

“The United Nations is committed to implementing the roles entrusted to it in the resolution, scaling up humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza and supporting all efforts to move the parties toward the next phase of the ceasefire,” he added.

This resolution is one step towards reaching the second phase of the U.S.' 20-point Gaza peace plan. The first phase of the plan went into effect on Oct. 10.

-ABC News' Ellie Kaufman

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