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, 3:48 AM EST

Conditions in Gaza still 'desperate' as winter looms, MSF says

The Médecins Sans Frontières NGO said in a Tuesday statement that Palestinians in Gaza "continue to face tremendous hardship, including dire living conditions and insufficient aid," one month into the ceasefire.

Palestinians light fires to keep away mosquitoes amid the destruction left by Israeli air and ground offensive in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, on Nov. 11, 2025.
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"Living conditions in the strip remain desperate, with vital infrastructure destroyed, mass displacement and insufficient aid," the MSF said. "The ceasefire must be respected and accompanied by an immediate, massive, and sustained scale-up of aid into and across the strip."

Caroline Seguin, the MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, said, "Palestinians are still being killed and injured by Israeli forces almost every day in the areas close to the yellow line, behind which Israel maintains control."

"Palestinians often risk their lives by going back to look for their houses, as this line is still not always clearly marked," Seguin said. "To make matters worse, some main hospitals are in areas controlled by Israeli forces, which means safe access to health care is reduced."

Many displaced Palestinians "are still living in makeshift tents and without access to running water and electricity, next to piles of rubbish and overflowing sewage," Seguin said, reporting subsequent respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal infections.

Israeli authorities, Seguin said, "continue to impose significant restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza." She called for Israel to "immediately allow a massive scale-up of unimpeded humanitarian assistance."

"Winter is coming soon, with temperatures dropping and heavy rains and wind expected," Seguin warned.

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

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