The violence got here a day after the UN Security Council gave its backing to U.S. President Donald Trump’s blueprint to safe and govern Gaza. Hamas rejected the plan.
The Israeli navy mentioned the ramming and stabbing assault befell on the busy Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem, a web site of many previous assaults by Palestinian militants.
Israel’s emergency rescue companies mentioned a 30-year-old man died of stab wounds. Three others had been hospitalised, together with a lady in severe situation and a teen in reasonable situation.
It was not instantly clear who carried out the assault or what number of assailants participated.
Settler violence has flared within the West Bank. In the newest assault on Monday, Israeli settlers rampaged via the Palestinian village of al-Jab’a, torching houses and vehicles. The violence drew a uncommon condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different high leaders.
Mahmoud Fawzi, a cameraman for the Jordanian TV channel Roya TV, is detained by Israeli troopers throughout a protest by displaced Palestinians calling to return to their homes within the Nur Shams refugee camp, within the West Bank metropolis of Tulkarem, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
Israel’s navy despatched troopers and police to the village on Monday after stories of fires and vandalism. Hours earlier on Monday, clashes erupted between Israeli safety forces and settlers defending an unauthorised outpost on a close-by hill going through evacuation and demolition on Monday, based on COGAT, the Israeli navy physique that offers with civilians within the West Bank.
Israeli police mentioned earlier that six suspects had been arrested in confrontations in the course of the demolitions, with dozens of settlers had been entrenched and throwing stones and metallic bars and burning tires.
Netanyahu and Hamas react to UN vote
Mr. Netanyahu on Tuesday applauded the UN approval of Mr. Trump’s plan for postwar Gaza.
“We imagine that President Trumps plan will result in peace and prosperity as a result of it insists upon full demilitarization, disarmament and the deradicalization of Gaza,” Mr. Netanyahu’s workplace wrote on X.
The decision offers a large mandate for a global pressure to supply safety in war-devastated Gaza, approves a transitional authority referred to as the Board of Peace to be overseen by Trump and envisions a attainable future path to an impartial Palestinian state.
The plan requires the stabilisation pressure to make sure “the everlasting decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed teams.” It authorises the pressure “to make use of all vital measures to hold out its mandate” in compliance with worldwide legislation, which is UN language for using navy pressure.
Hamas mentioned on Monday that the pressure’s mandate together with disarmament “strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a celebration to the battle in favour of the occupation.” It mentioned the decision didn’t “meet the extent of our Palestinian individuals’s political and humanitarian calls for and rights.” Hamas demanded that any worldwide pressure be underneath UN supervision, deploy solely at Gaza’s borders to watch the ceasefire and function solely with Palestinian establishments.
Palestinian Authority welcomes decision after statehood is included
The Palestinian Authority welcomed the decision and mentioned it was prepared to right away implement it, in cooperation with the US, the UN, and different Arab and European states.
Palestinians largely view the PA, which governs semiautonomous zones within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as weak and corrupt. The authority’s safety coordination with Israel is extraordinarily unpopular, and plenty of Palestinians see it as a subcontractor of the occupation.
The UN vote happened following almost two weeks of negotiations, when Arab nations and the Palestinians pressed the United States to strengthen language about Palestinian self-determination.
The proposal nonetheless offers no timeline or assure for an impartial state, solely saying it is attainable after advances within the reconstruction of Gaza and reforms of the Palestinian Authority.
The US revised the decision to say that after these steps, “the circumstances might lastly be in place for a reputable pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” “The United States will set up a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceable and affluent coexistence,” it provides.
Resolution features assist from Muslim-majority and Arab international locations
A key to the decision’s adoption was assist from Arab and different Muslim nations that had been important for the ceasefire and doubtlessly might contribute to the worldwide pressure.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations distributed a joint assertion on 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 most populous Muslim-majority nation, and Turkiye mentioned they’d work towards a two-state resolution, which Mr. Netanyahu has opposed.
Turkish officers have beforehand mentioned Turkiye is able to contribute to a global pressure in Gaza regardless of Israeli opposition to a Turkish presence.
The vote shores up hopes that Gaza’s fragile ceasefire shall be maintained following a battle set off by Hamas’ shock assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 individuals. Israel’s offensive has killed over 69,000 Palestinians, based on the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants however says the bulk are girls and kids.
