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.
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.
Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters
"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.
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.
Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
"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.
Jehad Alshrafi/AP
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.
