The UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza by establishing a new transitional Board of Peace (BoP) and authorizing an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to oversee governance, reconstruction and security efforts in the Gaza Strip, on November 17, 2025. in New York City, United.
The Genocide in Gaza
- The Israeli military said it killed at least two Palestinians in southern Gaza on Tuesday after they crossed the so-called “yellow line” demarcating territory under Israeli military control. Israel also conducted air strikes east of Khan Younis while carrying out raids and demolition operations east of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.
- An Israeli quadcopter drone dropped two bombs on and around Al-Daraj School in Gaza City on Monday, according to reports from Wafa, injuring more than 13 people, including a child who is now in critical condition. One device detonated at the school’s main gate and another struck a tent inside a shelter area behind the building, officials reported, emphasizing that the school sits in an area west of the “yellow line” and therefore outside of Israeli military control.
- Gaza’s Government Media Office warned of a full shelter collapse as Israel continues its blockade on tents, tarps, plastic sheeting, heaters, flooring, and mobile sanitation, leaving tens of thousands of people in winter-flooded encampments without protection from the elements. Officials say more than 288,000 families now lack the minimum requirements for survival and that Gaza needs roughly 300,000 tents and mobile homes to meet their needs. Without them, entire camps are submerged in mud, and children and the elderly are exposed to freezing conditions.
- A Sky News report on Israeli authorities blocking aid features a walk through a warehouse in Jordan stocked with shelter materials—including tents, tarps, blankets, and insulation—which Israel has systematically denied to Gaza’s Palestinians, whose encampments have now flooded after this weekend’s winter storms. The investigation also found that Israel is obstructing vital medical equipment such as prosthetics, wheelchairs, and other mobility devices for children who lost limbs in Israeli attacks.
- Over 80 Palestinians from Gaza who went to East Jersualem for medical treatment before Israel began its genocide were returned to the enclave today after being stranded for over two years while Israel blocked all returns and new medical entries. Some had completed their treatment and expressed their desire to return to Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, however some were forced to return, according to Middle East Eye.
Trump’s Plan for Gaza
- The UN Security Council approved the Trump administration’s plan for Gaza on Tuesday by a vote of 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining. The resolution authorizes an international stabilization force in Gaza to work to demilitarize the Palestinian resistance by ensuring “the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups” and authorizes it “to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate.” The resolution also approves the creation of a “board of peace” with sweeping authority over Gaza, including overseeing reconstruction, security, economic recovery, and coordinating the distribution of humanitarian aid. Authorization for the board and the international stabilization force expires at the end of 2027.
- The resolution gives no timeline or guarantee for an independent state but says that, after reconstruction moves forward and reforms are made in the Palestinian Authority, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”
- President Donald Trump celebrated the Security Council’s endorsement of his proposed “Board of Peace,” saying he will chair it alongside “the most powerful and respected leaders” (Jared Kushner and Tony Blair) and calling the approval “one of the biggest” in UN history. He claimed the measure will bring “further peace all over the world” and highlighted backing from Qatar, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, and Jordan.
- Before the vote, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz warned that “a vote against this resolution is a vote to return to war,” as Washington pressed members to back the plan.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded the vote on Tuesday with his office saying in a social media post: “We believe that President Trump‘s plan will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarization, disarmament and the deradicalization of Gaza.”
- Hamas blasted the resolution, saying in a statement that it “does not meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian demands and rights” and that “imposes a mechanism to achieve the occupation’s objectives, which it failed to accomplish through its brutal genocide.”
- Hours before the UN Security Council vote on the U.S.-backed Gaza plan, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir escalated threats against the Palestinian Authority, saying Mahmoud Abbas should be placed “in solitary confinement” and that senior PA officials should face “targeted killings” if the UN advances recognition of a Palestinian state, which he dismissed as a project of an “invented people.” Times of Israel reports that he told his faction that Israel must prepare orders for assassinations and arrest warrants, adding that “a solitary confinement cell is ready for him in Ketziot Prison.” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, at his own faction meeting, vowed to block “any path” to Palestinian statehood, calling it his “life’s mission” and insisting that any such state should be established in “Arab countries” or Europe but “not here,” where he said Israel will retain “full sovereignty.” The Palestinian Authority welcomed the resolution and said it was ready to immediately implement it on the ground.
West Bank and Israel
- Israeli forces shot and wounded an Al Jazeera cameraman in Tulkarem and a child in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The journalist, Fadi Yassin, was covering a protest near the Nour Shams refugee camp by Palestinians demanding to be allowed to return to their homes following a raid by Israeli forces. Four Palestinians were also arrested.
- One Israeli was killed and three were wounded in a reported car ramming and stabbing attack at an intersection near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The two suspected attackers were killed by Israeli forces at the scene, according to Israeli Army Radio.
- Seven Palestinians were arrested by Israeli forces in raids on Bethlehem and the Jalazone refugee camp on Tuesday, according to the Wafa news agency. Israeli forces also conducted raids in Nablus and the surrounding villages.
- Imprisoned Palestinian journalist Farah Abu Ayyash described a sustained pattern of torture by Israelis, beginning with her arrest in the middle of the night in August. She was bound to a chair under filthy, dripping water in a Karmeh Tzur prison, she said, subjected to tightened plastic restraints that cut into an artery, attacked by dogs, and held in solitary confinement before being forced to unlock her phone for her Israeli captors. Ayyash expressed disappointment in the fact that her colleagues in the West have failed to advocate for her freedom. “I’m hurt by my fellow journalists. They didn’t create pressure or raise their voices for my release. I was arrested because of my work. I hope every free journalist hears me.”
- A Tel Aviv court ruled that a 14-year-old Palestinian autistic boy from Jaffa who reported being sexually assaulted by both prison guards and other inmates must be returned to the same prison for temporary detention, Haaretz reports. The boy, who was charged with “security offenses,” repeatedly tried to involve Israeli authorities, including the Prison Service, but his requests for help were ignored, according to his public defender and his mother. He will return to court next week.
