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, 3:45 PM EST

13 killed by Israeli strike in southern Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck what it claimed was a Hamas compound in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.

People gathering next of ambulances outside a hospital after an Israeli strike in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Nov. 18, 2025.
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At least 13 people were killed and 11 others were wounded in the attack, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said, which struck the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Sidon.

-ABC News’ Jordana Miller and Ghazi Balkiz

Nov 18, 2025, 2:32 PM EST

Islamic Jihad says international forces could be treated as 'occupying force'

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is warning that international forces could be treated as an "occupying force" in the wake of the United Nations' vote to adopt a U.S.-led resolution on Gaza.

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution propping up President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan that would authorize an international force to stabilize the Gulf region, run by a "Board of Peace" headed up by Trump.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Mohammad Al Haj Musa reacted to the vote on Tuesday telling Al Jazeera, “We will treat any force that enters the Gaza Strip as an occupying force.”

“They must withdraw,” he said.

-ABC News’ Will Gretsky

Nov 18, 2025, 9:02 AM EST

1 killed, 3 hurt in car ramming and stabbing attack in West Bank

One victim was killed and three were wounded, including a 15-year-old boy, in a car ramming and stabbing attack in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli officials said.

The Israel Defense Forces said two "terrorists" were eliminated at the scene of the car ramming. lDF soldiers are now encircling the area to conduct searches and block off the roads, the statement added.

-ABC News’ Morgan Winsor and Jordana Miller

Nov 18, 2025, 3:55 AM EST

Netanyahu congratulates Trump, says plan will 'deradicalize' Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office published a statement on Tuesday congratulating President Donald Trump after the United Nations Security Council authorized the U.S.-led plan for post-war Gaza.

Smoke rises in an area within the so-called "yellow line" to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 18, 2025.
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"We believe that this plan will lead to peace and prosperity, as it includes full demobilization, disarmament and a process to deradicalize Gaza," Netanyahu said in the statement.

"In cooperation with the United States and other countries supporting the plan, Israel looks forward to the return of all the bodies of the abductees. Without delay," he said. There are believed to still be three deceased hostages inside Gaza.

"We will also begin the process of demilitarizing and disarming the Gaza Strip and ending Hamas rule," Netanyahu said.

"Israel extends its hand of peace and prosperity to all its neighbors, and calls on them to normalize relations and join the movement to remove Hamas and its supporters from the region," the prime minister added.

Netanyahu's statement did not mention the plan's reference to potential future Palestinian statehood -- a proposal the prime minister and other Israeli officials have criticized and repeatedly said they will block, including in the days leading up to Monday's vote.

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