JERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 An Israeli was killed and three were wounded in an attack Tuesday at an intersection in the West Bank, Israel\u2019s rescue service said, following a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians across the occupied territory. <\/p>\n
The violence came a day after the U.N. Security Council gave its backing to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s blueprint to secure and govern Gaza<\/a>. Hamas rejected the plan. <\/p>\n The Israeli military said the ramming and stabbing attack took place at the busy Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem, a site of many past attacks by Palestinian militants. <\/p>\n Israel\u2019s emergency rescue services said a 30-year-old man died of stab wounds. Three others were hospitalized, including a woman in serious condition and a teenager in moderate condition. <\/p>\n It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack or how many assailants participated. <\/p>\n Settler violence has flared in the West Bank. In the latest attack Monday, Israeli settlers rampaged through the Palestinian village of al-Jab\u2019a, torching homes and cars. The violence drew a rare condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and other top leaders.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military sent soldiers and police to the village Monday after reports of fires and vandalism. Hours earlier Monday, clashes erupted between Israeli security forces and settlers defending an unauthorized outpost on a nearby hill facing evacuation and demolition on Monday, according to COGAT, the Israeli military body that deals with civilians in the West Bank.<\/p>\n Israeli police said earlier that six suspects were arrested in confrontations during the demolitions, with dozens of settlers were entrenched and throwing stones and metal bars and burning tires.<\/p>\n Netanyahu and Hamas react to UN vote<\/p>\n Netanyahu on Tuesday applauded the U.N. approval of Trump\u2019s plan for postwar Gaza. <\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that President Trump\u2018s plan will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarization, disarmament and the deradicalization of Gaza,\u201d Netanyahu\u2019s office wrote on X. <\/p>\n The resolution provides a wide mandate for an international force to provide security in war-devastated Gaza, approves a transitional authority called the Board of Peace to be overseen by Trump and envisions a possible future path<\/a> to an independent Palestinian state. <\/p>\n The plan calls for the stabilization force to ensure \u201cthe permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups.\u201d It authorizes the force \u201cto use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate\u201d in compliance with international law, which is U.N. language for the use of military force.<\/p>\n Hamas said Monday that the force\u2019s mandate including disarmament \u201cstrips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation.\u201d It said the resolution did not \u201cmeet the level of our Palestinian people\u2019s political and humanitarian demands and rights.\u201d Hamas demanded that any international force be under U.N. supervision, deploy only at Gaza\u2019s borders to monitor the ceasefire and operate exclusively with Palestinian institutions. <\/p>\n Palestinian Authority welcomes resolution after statehood is included<\/p>\n The Palestinian Authority welcomed the resolution and said it was ready to immediately implement it, in cooperation with the U.S., the U.N., and other Arab and European states.<\/p>\n Palestinians largely view the PA, which governs semiautonomous zones in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as weak and corrupt. The authority\u2019s security coordination with Israel is extremely unpopular, and many Palestinians see it as a subcontractor of the occupation.<\/p>\n The U.N. vote came about following nearly two weeks of negotiations<\/a>, when Arab nations and the Palestinians pressed the United States to strengthen language about Palestinian self-determination. The proposal still gives no timeline or guarantee for an independent state, only saying it\u2019s possible after advances in the reconstruction of Gaza and reforms of the Palestinian Authority. <\/p>\n The U.S. revised the resolution to say that after those steps, \u201cthe conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n Resolution gains support from Muslim-majority and Arab countries<\/p>\n A key to the resolution\u2019s adoption was support from Arab and other Muslim nations that had been critical for the ceasefire and potentially could contribute to the international force. The U.S. mission to the United Nations distributed a joint statement Friday with Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan and Turkey calling for \u201cswift adoption\u201d of the U.S. proposal.<\/p>\n Both Indonesia, the world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority nation, and Turkey said they would work toward a two-state solution, which Netanyahu has opposed. <\/p>\n Turkish officials have previously said Turkey is ready to contribute to an international force in Gaza despite Israeli opposition to a Turkish presence.<\/p>\n The vote shores up hopes that Gaza\u2019s fragile ceasefire will be maintained following a war set off by Hamas\u2019 surprise attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people. Israel\u2019s offensive has killed over 69,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn\u2019t distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority are women and children.<\/p>\n U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said Tuesday that the international community needed to \u201cwork together to take forward the 20 point plan and to turn it into a just and lasting peace.\u201d Cooper called for \u201curgent action to open all the crossings, lift restrictions and flood Gaza with aid.\u201d<\/p>\n What else the US proposal says<\/p>\n Trump said the members of the Board of Peace will be named in the coming weeks, along with \u201cmany more exciting announcements.\u201d<\/p>\n The plan calls for the stabilization troops to secure Gaza border areas, along with a Palestinian police force that they have trained and vetted. The force will coordinate with other countries to secure the flow of humanitarian assistance, and<\/a> should closely consult and cooperate with neighboring Egypt and Israel.<\/p>\n As the international force establishes control, the resolution says Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza \u201cbased on standards, milestones, and time frames linked to demilitarization.\u201d These must be agreed to by the stabilization force, Israeli forces, the U.S. and the guarantors of the ceasefire, it says.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Associated Press writers Edith Lederer at the United Nations, Suzan Frazer in Ankara, Turkey and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia contributed to this report. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n