Netanyahu says Israel will block Palestinian state

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

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 12, 2025, 3:07 AM EST

4 Palestinians injured as Israelis attack West Bank villages

Four Palestinians were injured amid reports of "dozens of masked Israeli civilians attacking Palestinians and setting property on fire," in two villages in the West Bank on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

A Palestinian man tries to extinguish flames from a burning truck after Israeli settlers attacked the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on Nov. 11, 2025.
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"Four Palestinians were injured and evacuated for medical treatment and damage was caused," the IDF said in posts to social media.

Four Israelis were arrested in the ongoing investigation into the attacks, an Israeli Police spokesperson said in a statement.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the violence, calling the incident "shocking and serious," in a post on X. "Such violence against civilians and against IDF soldiers crosses a red line and I condemn it severely," Herzog said.

Violent incidents in the West Bank have increased over the past month.

October 2025 saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks since the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs began recording them in 2006, the office said in an update on Nov. 6.

More than 260 attacks "resulting in casualties, property damage or both -- an average of eight incidents per day," were recorded in October, the OCHA said.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Ellie Kaufman

Nov 11, 2025, 4:58 PM EST

UN begins vaccine campaign for children across Gaza

An immunization campaign has begun across Gaza with the goal of reaching 44,000 children in three rounds, according to the United Nations Children's Fund.

The campaign -- run by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the Gaza Ministry of Health -- began on Sunday and will go through Nov. 18.

“It is estimated that 1 in 5 children under three years of age are either zero-dose or have missed vaccinations because of the conflict, putting them at risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks,” UNICEF said in a statement.

“The catch-up campaign aims to provide these children with routine childhood vaccines that protect against measles, mumps, and rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, polio, rotavirus and pneumonia,” UNICEF said.

-ABC News' Diaa Ostaz

Nov 11, 2025, 11:26 AM EST

Hezbollah will not disarm despite pressure from Israeli strikes, group leader says

Hezbollah will not disarm, despite pressure from Israel, including missile strikes on southern Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in an address Tuesday.

Strikes from the Israel Defense Forces on southern Lebanon over the past couple of weeks have been increasing in intensity.

PHOTO: Plumes of smoke billow following an Israeli strike in the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Qatrani near Jezzine on Nov. 10, 2025.
Plumes of smoke billow following an Israeli strike in the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Qatrani near Jezzine on Nov. 10, 2025. Despite a ceasefire in place since November 2024, Israel has kept up attacks on Lebanon, where it continues to hold five positions.
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Hezbollah is defending itself and the continuation of the aggression cannot last, Qassem said.

"Pressure will not change our stance, and we will defend our land, our people, and our dignity, and we will not leave the future of our generations to the arrogant and the agents," Qassem said.

-ABC News' Ghazi Hourani

Nov 11, 2025, 2:48 AM EST

UN says 'many obstacles' remain to Gaza aid efforts

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations' under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said in a Monday statement that the UN and its partners "have fed more than a million people" in Gaza since the signing of a ceasefire there last month.

Young displaced Palestinians wait with their containers to receive a portion of food in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central of Gaza Strip on Nov. 10, 2025.
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"Nutrition sites have been reopened and hospitals are treating more patients," Fletcher said. "Roads have been cleared. Vital immunizations are being resumed. Water lines repaired. Winter clothes and blankets are being distributed and mental health and psycho-social services delivered."

But Fletcher said that "many obstacles remain" that are preventing the adequate flow of aid into the devastated Palestinian territory.

"We're working to overcome red tape, enable essential humanitarian partners, open more crossings and routes and navigate continued insecurity," Fletcher said.

"With these constraints eased, we can do much more to save many more lives," he added.

-ABC News' Cindy Smith and Will Gretsky

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