Netanyahu says Israel will block Palestinian state

Netanyahu said he had been blocking Palestinian statehood "for decades."

ByDavid Brennan and Nadine El-Bawab
Last Updated: November 17, 2025, 2:00 AM EST

There are now three remaining deceased hostages in Gaza, following Thursday's return of the body of Meni Goddard. Israeli authorities have been releasing the bodies of Palestinians in exchange for the return of hostage remains.

The ceasefire is broadly holding in Gaza. Elsewhere, Israel is continuing strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces is also continuing raids in parts of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, last week that the war "has not ended," warning that "those who seek to do us harm are re-arming."

Netanyahu and other officials, meanwhile, have reiterated their intention to block future Palestinian statehood ahead of a planned United Nations Security Council vote on the U.S. plan for post-war Gaza.

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Nov 09, 2025, 12:28 PM EST

Body returned from Gaza identified as Israeli soldier killed in 2014

The body returned from Gaza on Sunday has been identified as Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

Goldin "fell in battle and was abducted in 2014, during Operation Protective Edge," the prime minster's office said in its statement.

The prime minster's office said Goldin's family was notified "that their loved one had been returned to Israel and his identification had been completed."

"The Government of Israel shares in the deep sorrow of the Goldin family and all the families of the abducted soldiers," the prime minster's office said in the statement. "The Government and the entire Israeli Defense Forces are determined, committed and working tirelessly to return all of our abducted soldiers to a proper burial in their own country."

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

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