One Israeli killed, three wounded in West Bank attack as UN approves Trump's Gaza plan

An Israeli was killed and 3 were wounded successful an onslaught connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) astatine an intersection successful the West Bank, Israel's rescue work said, pursuing a spate of settler attacks connected Palestinians crossed the occupied territory.

The unit came a time aft the UN Security Council gave its backing to U.S. President Donald Trump's blueprint to unafraid and govern Gaza. Hamas rejected the plan.

The Israeli subject said the ramming and stabbing onslaught took spot astatine the engaged Gush Etzion junction southbound of Jerusalem, a tract of galore past attacks by Palestinian militants.

Israel's exigency rescue services said a 30-year-old antheral died of stab wounds. Three others were hospitalised, including a pistillate successful superior information and a teen successful mean condition.

It was not instantly wide who carried retired the onslaught oregon however galore assailants participated.

Settler unit has flared successful the West Bank. In the latest onslaught connected Monday, Israeli settlers rampaged done the Palestinian colony of al-Jab'a, torching homes and cars. The unit drew a uncommon condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different apical leaders.

Israel's subject sent soldiers and constabulary to the colony connected Monday aft reports of fires and vandalism. Hours earlier connected Monday, clashes erupted betwixt Israeli information forces and settlers defending an unauthorised outpost connected a adjacent elevation facing evacuation and demolition connected Monday, according to COGAT, the Israeli subject assemblage that deals with civilians successful the West Bank.

Israeli constabulary said earlier that six suspects were arrested successful confrontations during the demolitions, with dozens of settlers were entrenched and throwing stones and metallic bars and burning tires.

Netanyahu and Hamas respond to UN vote

Mr. Netanyahu connected Tuesday applauded the UN support of Mr. Trump's program for postwar Gaza.

“We judge that President Trumps program volition pb to bid and prosperity due to the fact that it insists upon afloat demilitarization, disarmament and the deradicalization of Gaza,” Mr. Netanyahu's bureau wrote connected X.

The solution provides a wide mandate for an planetary unit to supply information successful war-devastated Gaza, approves a transitional authorization called the Board of Peace to beryllium overseen by Trump and envisions a imaginable aboriginal way to an autarkic Palestinian state.

The program calls for the stabilisation unit to guarantee "the imperishable decommissioning of weapons from non-state equipped groups.” It authorises the unit “to usage each indispensable measures to transportation retired its mandate” successful compliance with planetary law, which is UN connection for the usage of subject force.

Hamas said connected Monday that the force's mandate including disarmament “strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a enactment to the struggle successful favour of the occupation.” It said the solution did not “meet the level of our Palestinian people's governmental and humanitarian demands and rights." Hamas demanded that immoderate planetary unit beryllium nether UN supervision, deploy lone astatine Gaza's borders to show the ceasefire and run exclusively with Palestinian institutions.

Palestinian Authority welcomes solution aft statehood is included

The Palestinian Authority welcomed the solution and said it was acceptable to instantly instrumentality it, successful practice with the US, the UN, and different Arab and European states.

Palestinians mostly presumption the PA, which governs semiautonomous zones successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank, arsenic anemic and corrupt. The authority's information coordination with Israel is highly unpopular, and galore Palestinians spot it arsenic a subcontractor of the occupation.

The UN ballot came astir pursuing astir 2 weeks of negotiations, erstwhile Arab nations and the Palestinians pressed the United States to fortify connection astir Palestinian self-determination.

The connection inactive gives nary timeline oregon warrant for an autarkic state, lone saying it's imaginable aft advances successful the reconstruction of Gaza and reforms of the Palestinian Authority.

The US revised the solution to accidental that aft those steps, “the conditions whitethorn yet beryllium successful spot for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” “The United States volition found a dialog betwixt Israel and the Palestinians to hold connected a governmental skyline for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,” it adds.

Resolution gains enactment from Muslim-majority and Arab countries

A cardinal to the resolution's adoption was enactment from Arab and different Muslim nations that had been captious for the ceasefire and perchance could lend to the planetary force.

The U.S. ngo to the United Nations distributed a associated connection connected Friday with Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan and Turkiye calling for “swift adoption” of the U.S. proposal.

Both Indonesia, the world's astir populous Muslim-majority nation, and Turkiye said they would enactment toward a two-state solution, which Mr. Netanyahu has opposed.

Turkish officials person antecedently said Turkiye is acceptable to lend to an planetary unit successful Gaza contempt Israeli absorption to a Turkish presence.

The ballot shores up hopes that Gaza's fragile ceasefire volition beryllium maintained pursuing a warfare acceptable disconnected by Hamas' astonishment onslaught connected confederate Israel connected October 7, 2023, which killed astir 1,200 people. Israel's violative has killed implicit 69,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn't separate betwixt civilians and combatants but says the bulk are women and children.