Israel attacks Beirut, targets Hezbollah chief of staff

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

ByDavid Brennan
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.

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Nov 19, 2025, 11:07 AM EST

IDF kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

At least five Palestinians were killed in attacks by the Israeli army in different Gaza City neighborhoods on Wednesday, according to local hospitals.

The casualties were all inside the safe zone at the time, and were away from the yellow line that separates the Israeli-controlled area from the safe zone, ABC News has learned.

But the Israel Defense Forces said, “Several terrorists were identified crossing the yellow line and approaching IDF troops in the northern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat.”

Nov 19, 2025, 6:50 AM EST

IDF confirms 2 more deadly strikes in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X that it conducted "two targeted attacks" killing alleged Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, one in the area of Bint Jbeil and another in Blida.

The IDF published video of strikes on two moving vehicles. It said the strikes killed one person it alleged was "engaged in reconstruction operations" for Hezbollah, and one person "who was observed collecting intelligence on our forces."

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.
Mohammad Zaatari/AP

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

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