It must be the UNSC vote today, I don't believe a word of it

Netanyahu says will crackdown on settler violence after attacks on Palestinian villages

Following violent attacks in two separate locations earlier today in the occupied West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will urgently convene cabinet ministers to ensure Israelis behind the latest attacks against Palestinians are brought to justice.

Convening ministers, a potential sign of greater government attention, was Netanyahu’s most significant recent step to address the violence.

Attacks on Palestinians by Israeli citizens who have illegally settled on Palestinian land are frequently carried out with tacit and overt support from the Israeli army.

“I call on the law enforcement authorities to deal with the rioters to the fullest extent of the law. I intend to deal with this personally, and convene the relevant ministers as soon as possible to address this serious phenomenon,” Netanyahu said.

Israeli defence minister vows to ‘develop and grow’ settlements in occupied West Bank

The Israeli defence minister has said his country will “continue to develop and grow settlements” in the occupied West Bank, despite them being illegal under international law.

Israel Katz confirmed the move in a post on X, in which he also criticised some settlers over their violent actions on Monday.

Reports from the West Bank suggested that they had carried out attacks on Monday, including in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, where they injured a number of Palestinians and set fire to a house and several vehicles.

“We will not accept the attempts of a violent and criminal handful of lawless anarchists to take the law into their own hands and tarnish the settler public,” Katz wrote.

“There will be no tolerance for anyone who acts violently,” he added.

Katz also alluded to a government decision on the handling of extremist settlers. The defence minister promised that it would be announced in the coming weeks, and that it would “bring about significant change on the ground”. 

Steal land responsibly?! Seems more like the IDF and Settlers are fighting for who gets to displace and terrorize Palestinians. Or an attempt at finger pointing, taking the focus off the IDF.


Trump says he will approve sale of F-35 fighter jet to Saudi Arabia

The US president says he will greenlight the sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, signalling a departure in how Washington handles sophisticated weapons transfers to Arab countries.

Trump made the announcement at the White House, just one day before the Saudi crown prince is due to visit. “We’ll be selling F-35s,” the president told reporters, lauding Washington’s ties with Riyadh.

“Yeah, I am planning on doing it. They want to buy them. They’ve been a great ally,” Trump said.

The decision marks a substantial win for Riyadh as Trump works to persuade Saudi Arabia to establish official ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords. But Saudi officials have repeatedly asserted the kingdom’s commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which conditions recognition of Israel on the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.

Security Council adopts US resolution on Gaza stabilisation force

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/middleeast/us-gaza-israel-un-vote-intl-latam

The Security Council has just voted in favour of the resolution. The vote tally was as follows: 13 votes in favour, zero against and two abstentions, including Russia.

Ahead of the vote, Waltz warned that “a vote against this resolution is a vote to return to war.” He applauded its passage, saying it “represents another significant step towards a stable Gaza that will be able to prosper, and an environment that will allow Israel to live in security.”

So basically coercion, accept or turn up the genocide again.

US thanks Security Council for adopting its resolution

We just heard from the US ambassador at the UN, Mike Waltz, who thanked the council for siding with his country and voting in favour of the US draft resolution for the deployment of an international force in Gaza.

Presenting an argument on the merits of the US plan earlier, he said:

Hamas rejects UN plan for international force in Gaza

“The resolution imposes an international guardianship mechanism on the Gaza Strip, which our people and their factions reject,” the group says in a lengthy statement on Telegram.

This discontent echoed earlier comments by a Hamas spokesperson to Al Jazeera in which the group communicated that it would reject foreign control of the Gaza Strip.

“Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the [Israeli] occupation,” the statement said.

“Any international force, if established, must be deployed only at the borders to separate forces, monitor the ceasefire, and must be fully under UN supervision.”

HRW says Israel, allies must uphold human rights

Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch, has noted that the US resolution just adopted by the Security Council doesn’t include any references to human rights.

But he says that “doesn’t negate” Israel’s and its allies’ obligations to comply with international human rights and humanitarian law.

“As the International Court of Justice ruled in its recent advisory opinion, Israel is obligated to cooperate with UN humanitarian agencies, including UNRWA,” Charbonneau said in a statement.

“The Israeli military and any international forces must ensure that humanitarian aid flows freely and Israel’s policy of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza comes to an end.”

He also called on governments to commit to “executing all ICC [International Criminal Court] arrest warrants, ensuring that all those alleged to be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity face justice”.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

It also issued warrants for Hamas leaders, but they have all since been killed in Israeli attacks.

Algeria says resolution is explicit against Israeli annexation, forced displacement

The Algerian ambassador to the UN has praised the US and its president for their efforts in proposing the draft resolution on Gaza that has just been adopted by the Security Council.

Amar Bendjama said his country was particularly grateful to Trump “whose personal engagement has been instrumental in establishing and maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza”, which ended almost two years of “unbearable suffering” for the Palestinians.

“But we underline that genuine peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved without justice, justice for the Palestinians who have waited for decades for the establishment of their independent state.”

Bendjama also said the resolution has to be read in its entirety. “It clearly affirms no annexation, no occupation, no forced displacement.” He went on to say that humanitarian aid must be distributed in Gaza “without interference” from Israel.

Trump welcomes UN vote for ‘board of peace’

Trump has shared a post on Truth Social congratulating the world for the “incredible vote of the United Nations Security Council.” He highlighted that the resolution will see a board of peace created, “which will be chaired by me”.

The board will also “include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World,” Trump said.

Trump also thanked all members of the Security Council, including those that abstained from the vote as well as other countries he says “strongly backed the effort, including Qatar, Egypt, [the] United Arab Emirates, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkiye, and Jordan.”

“The members of the Board, and many more exciting announcements, will be made in the coming weeks,” he said.

International colonialism in action, set up for failure, just like the Oslo Accords, Camp David, nothing new here sigh.

Palestinian Authority says it holds Israeli government responsible for minister’s threats against Abbas

The office of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s comments against him and his senior colleagues, saying it holds the Israeli government responsible for what it considers dangerous incitement.

As we reported earlier, Ben-Gvir called on Monday for Abbas to be imprisoned and for senior Palestinian officials to be assassinated if the UN moves ahead with plans to recognise Palestinian statehood.

The PA presidency called on the administration of US President Donald Trump and the international community to put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to end its incitement against Palestinians leaders, according to the Wafa news agency.

UK diplomat warns violence in West Bank can undermine Gaza progress

Speaking at the UNSC meeting after it adopted the US resolution, UK ambassador to the UN, James Kariuki, has stressed the need for aid agencies to be allowed to work without disruption.

He also stressed the need for the transitional arrangement to be implemented in accordance with international law and respect for Palestinian sovereignty.

He concluded his remarks on the ongoing spate of violence in the occupied West Bank, warning that the deteriorating economic conditions in the Palestinian territory and settlers’ attacks could undermine progress in Gaza.

Why is the UN resolution important for some countries?

US resolution passes despite strong criticism from Russia, China

We expected China and Russia to be very vocal in their criticism because they have been signalling that they were very much against this draft resolution that has now been adopted.

The only question was were Russia and China going to veto it. They decided not to. They abstained and let it pass.

We heard the Russian ambassador say this is no day of celebration for the Security Council, and he said the integrity of the council is now in question. We heard from the Chinese ambassador saying the resolution that was adopted was vague and unclear. And with the Board of Peace, he said there was no indication of structure, of how it would actually operate or how it would be composed.

Both Russia and China are saying that they, the council, were asked to endorse the Trump 20-point peace plan and that this isn’t what the Security Council is here to do – simply endorse peace plans by other countries – but to approve resolutions rooted in international law. And they say this definitely wasn’t it.

Both Russia and China are saying there are simply not enough details in this resolution for the Security Council to adopt it. The council did do that, however, with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions.

Resolution vague on details but reflects US power

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, says the resolution just adopted by the Security Council is vague on detail and shows the US still holds considerable influence.

“Clearly, this is the easy part, the voting. The hard part has just started, which is the implementation, especially when the document is so vague on so many levels,” Bishara said.

Bishara noted that the dynamics for implementation remain unclear and “the calendar is not even there” despite the many phases included in the plan.

“American power has won at the end of the day here today at the United Nations,” he added.

US envoy says vote against resolution would have seen ‘return to war’

We have more from Mike Waltz, the US envoy to the UN.

He told reporters outside the Security Council chamber that the adoption of the US resolution was the “first real step in generations” towards “lasting peace” in Gaza and the region. He noted that the agreement had the support of Muslim-majority nations as well as the Palestinian Authority and that Israel, too, had “indicated that we could move forward”.

So the US, he said, then asked the rest of the Security Council “how could you stand against it?”

Walz also said the US made clear to Security Council members that voting against the resolution would have seen a return to war.

“I want to be clear, the United States made it clear, President Trump, Secretary Rubio, my good friend Jared Kushner, special envoy Witkoff, we all made it clear that a vote against this resolution was a vote to return to war,” Waltz said.

Mafia tactics, plain and simple.

Russia says stabilisation force ‘reminiscent of colonial practices’

Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, has explained why his country abstained from the vote on the US resolution, expressing concerns about how it sidelines Palestinian participation and accusing the US of not acting in “good faith” to get it passed.

“The main thing is that this document shouldn’t become a fig leaf for unbridled experiments conducted by the US in Israel, in the occupied Palestinian territory,” Nebenzia said.

Nebenzia expressed concern that the resolution didn’t include information about how the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) would work together with the Palestinian Authority.

Under the resolution adopted, Nebenzia said, the force “would appear to be able to act absolutely autonomously without any regard for the position nor the opinion of Ramallah”.

“This may entrench the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank. It is reminiscent of colonial practices and the League of Nations British Mandate for Palestine when the opinion of Palestinians themselves was not taken into account,” the Russian envoy told the council.

He also expressed concerns that questions remain about the force’s mandate under Trump’s plan, including whether its “peace enforcement tasks” could “actually transform it into a party to the conflict going beyond the confines of peacekeeping”.

China says lack of detail in resolution ‘deeply worrisome’

China, which abstained from the vote on the US resolution, has expressed concern over a lack of details in the document, including on the role of Palestinians.

China’s envoy to the UN, Fu Cong, said the resolution “doesn’t demonstrate the fundamental principle of Palestinians governing Palestine”. “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not to anyone else,” he said.

Fu said the US should have provided more information on both the International Stabilization Force and the Board of Peace created by the resolution. “It should have explained in detail their structure, composition, terms of reference and criteria of preparation,” he said.

Fu also expressed concern that the resolution didn’t “ensure effective participation of the UN and its Security Council”. The resolution authorises the Board of Peace, which will be led by Trump, “to assume full responsibility for the civil and security arrangements in Gaza, but it stipulates no oversight or review mechanism beyond the annual written reports”, he said.

What is the Board of Peace?

As we’ve been reporting, the UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that endorses the establishment of a Board of Peace as a “transitional administration” in Gaza.

Ex-UN official slams Security Council for adopting ‘this US-Israel colonial outrage’

Craig Mokhiber, a former senior UN human rights official, has described today’s vote as a “day of shame for the United Nations”.

“Not a single member of the Council had the courage, principle, or respect for international law to vote against this US-Israel colonial outrage,” Mokhiber said in a post on X.

“This proposal has been rejected by Palestinian civil society and factions, and defenders of human rights and international law everywhere,” he said, adding that the “struggle for Palestinian freedom will continue”.

Mokhiber was the former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and left his post in 2023 in protest over the UN’s failure to prevent Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The UN Security Council has just adopted the horrific US resolution with 13 yes votes and 2 abstentions. Not a single member of the Council had the courage, principle, or respect for international law to vote against this US-Israel colonial outrage. This proposal has been…

— Craig Mokhiber (@CraigMokhiber) November 17, 2025

No more proof needed the PA is nothing more than a tool of Israel at this point

Palestinian Authority welcomes UN resolution on Gaza

The Palestinian Authority has hailed the passage of the US resolution on Gaza.

In a statement carried by the Wafa news agency, the PA said the US plan “affirms the establishment of a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state”.

The PA, which is based in Ramallah, also expressed its “full readiness to cooperate” with the Trump administration and the UN to “ensure the implementation of this resolution in a way that ends the suffering of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem”.

This comes after Hamas, which controls Gaza, slammed the US resolution.

In a statement earlier, Hamas said the resolution does not meet Palestinian demands and assigning an international force to disarm resistance groups in Gaza “strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favour of the occupation”.

Why disarming Hamas will be difficult to implement

Israel and the US are now dictating their terms, and Hamas and various Arab partners are at the receiving end of this diktat.

Within this context of power, hegemony, the US will be dictating the nature of the Board of Peace and the stabilisation force. And that means there will be countries friendly to Israel and the US. And that means their job is not just going to be to keep the peace on the borders but also find a way to disarm Hamas.

I think that’s going to be the complicated job because that also involves Israel acting on its own commitments, which means withdrawing to a narrow corridor on the eastern part of Gaza and so on.

All of this will be very difficult to implement.

The US will be involved but only from the outside. The US doesn’t want to get involved in terms of troops or money. But those countries who are going to contribute soldiers and money, they are going to need guarantees – in terms of a safe passage forward in relation to Hamas.

This is really important.

No Arab or Muslim-majority country wants to be put in a position, even under pressure, of doing Israel’s bidding in Gaza or doing Israel’s dirty work because Israel failed. After two years of genocide, of killing tens of thousands of people, it failed to disarm Hamas directly on the battlefield.

What did other UNSC members say?

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Palestinian group says UN resolution violates right to self-determination

Al-Haq has warned that the UNSC resolution adopted on Monday further undermines Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

“The proposition that the United States be authorised by the UN Security Council to establish itself as an Occupying Power in Palestine is inherently in contravention of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and in violation of the UN Charter,” the Ramallah-based human rights organisation said in a statement.

Al-Haq also warned that the creation of the Board of Peace and the temporary international stabilisation force “indicates the wholesale abandonment of international law, and the utter undermining of the UN Charter system”.

What does the Gaza resolution say about Palestinian statehood?

While the resolution does mention a possible future Palestinian state, it does so in a convoluted manner.

The text says that “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” once the Palestinian Authority has carried out a reform programme and Gaza’s redevelopment has advanced.

It also says that the US “will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence”.

The reference to a future possibility of statehood for the Palestinians has proved controversial in Israel. Netanyahu, who is under pressure from right-wing members of his government, said on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state and pledged to demilitarise Gaza “the easy way or the hard way”.

Gaza stabilisation force will not be subject to UN rules

Daniel Forti, a senior UN analyst with the International Crisis Group, says there needs to be a credible creation process for the international stabilisation force (ISF). He said the Security Council has authorised organisations that are not the UN, including coalitions such as NATO, to launch military intervention with its legal blessings.

“And that was the basic concept of what the US put forward for the ISF,” he told Al Jazeera from New York City. “The ISF is not meant to be a UN Blue Helmet mission. It will not be led or overseen by the UN, and will not follow its procedures or its rules. But it will have the council’s legitimacy and its backing,” he said.

The ISF will also not be subject to the UN’s traditional practices for mobilising troops or funding and missions, he said. “So this will very much depend on the countries that want to contribute boots on the ground and pay for the stabilisation force.”

Forti added that humanitarian groups in Gaza have noted a need for a mission that has the permission to use force, in order to maintain law and order, in the war-torn territory.