Hamas handed over 20 prisoners to Israel. In return, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners. US President Donald Trump himself has visited Israel and Egypt to negotiate a further peace agreement. But how much devastation is this peace coming after?
This is a 241-kilometer-long and 10-kilometer-wide strip of land, less than a quarter of the size of Delhi. More than 2 million people live there. Israel borders Israel on one side and Egypt on the other. Since 2007, Hamas has ruled Israel, which considers Israel its biggest enemy. On October 7, 2030, Hamas suddenly fired more than 5,000 rockets at Israeli positions. Thousands of Hamas fighters entered Israel through land, tunnels, and air. We took our citizens hostage. On October 7, missiles were used to claim Israeli casualties. On October 27, 2023, Israeli airstrikes were launched. Several marches were bombed. Children and families were buried in blood. In 2023, Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary ceasefire for 7 days, releasing 58 Israeli captives. In exchange, Israel also freed 150. However, from December 1, 2023, fighting resumed on both sides, and the devastation continued. On October 16, 2024, Hamas, the mastermind of the Hamas operation, was killed by Israel on Saturday, in a building in the Tal al-Sultan area of Gaza. In January 2025, after a 15-month conflict, another attempt was made to release them, but after the return of Hamas on January 21, 2025, Hamas intensified its efforts and stopped. On September 29, 2025, Hamas presented a 20-point plan, which Nitin Yahya accepted. It included an immediate halt to the war. Under this plan, Hamas and Israel released prisoners in October. More than 67,000 Palestinians died, including approximately 20,000 children. One child died every hour. Approximately 139,000 people were injured. The war began. Before the attack, 21 lakh people lived in Gaza. Now, about 90% of the people have been displaced. 125 hospitals and clinics are also damaged. 98% of cultivable land, 92% of schools, and 88% of commercial buildings are destroyed. There were about 2000 deaths in Israel, more than 20000 people were injured, and more than 1 lakh people were displaced. Israel and America earned 21.7 billion dollars by selling fighter jets, missiles, helicopters, and bombs to Israel through companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTS, and General Dynamics. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 66% of Israel’s arms imports from 2020 to 2024 were from America.
Donald Trump gave a powerful speech at this rally and in parliament. When Donald Trump was giving his speech, he stood up in the middle and said in his own language that all Palestinians want is statehood, and you should give it to them. People quickly picked him up, and the security personnel took him out and You have gathered these people like Sharif there who have adjusted themselves, and you have come there. A fraud has happened here; this is a big fraud, let me tell you why. The first thing is that the people who are fighting here are not there, we discussed this thing yesterday also that the people who are fighting are the head of state of Israel, peace is between whom, the people who are fighting are fighting, yes, it is okay, they were sent back and many of those who were in jail, more than a thousand, were sent back. Well, very good, Israel is releasing them from jail. Is this the first time that Hamas or some other terror group has kidnapped Israelis, or is this the 10th time? And it has happened before but Trump has a habit of polishing it and showing it as a victory, leaving him in front and in his voice, Israel had left more than 1000 people in the stadium to bring back one of its soldiers, the Israelis give so much importance to their lives, there is a proclamation that there will be peace here, there will be harmony here, the conversation that he was sitting in front of and Shahbaz Sharif also got a lot of applause, actually he was set that you were there otherwise millions of people would have been killed, there would have been a nuclear war, there would have been a fight between two nuclear powers, this would have happened, that would have happened all over the world, the way compromise has to be done, ready then compromise, stop bowing down, lie down on the ground like a carpet, please the masters, boot polish it better I don’t think anybody knows and someone might have come too but that aspect is also missing, painful so watch, painful so watch why does it not matter to me why are Pakistan praising
Why is he praising him? Isn’t that why the Israelis also praised him a lot? They gave him a standing ovation, a standing ovation, a point of applause, all this, they brought him to the proper Parliament, gave him full protocol, but the Israelis praised him, right, it was strategic, they know. Why, their strategy was, they used the term visit to the net and it is like an information warfare tool, Israeli. Trump cheated in this. Israel, use it in reverse, Israeli, this net Trump, how did he use it, it was fantastic, so everything happened like this: when you open your eyes, the sun will be there, then as you sleep, the sun will set. Literary growing in front of Donald Trump, there is no concept of respect, Pakistan joint invitation, a white king came, I will tell this 10 times, a white king came, understood carefully, a white king came, in front of the Gaur kingdom, all the other people who were not so white, bowed down and kept on the ground, Donald Trump took his right hand and joined it with his left hand, so much There is a story and it will remain and they have reduced it by announcing that Trump did not talk anything about the statehood of Palestine, he never referred to the citizens of Gaza and the people and the residents, I should say doesn’t what is the route, I will tell you how the route is that the establishment of modern Israel, okay, when modern Israel, it is 34000 years old.
The whole matter is that Israel will have to accept that it is a state. Israel did not accept it, America also did not accept it, Hamas does not want it even today, so why did Donald Trump create this spectacle? This was his own love exercise. I will tell you why he is being beaten at home; he is not able to control prices at home. Right, he accepted defeat in the Russia-Ukraine war. Modi ji is not giving him any importance, China has put him in a bad position, whoever understood him completely ignored his words, he was roaming around like a child because you had promised when you had made your 20 points, in one of your 20 points you had said that they will eventually go to work on statehood, right, you said that everyone will lay down their weapons, you said Israel will retreat, Israel does not retreat, we did not lay down our weapons. Israel has been saying that there should not be a Palestinian state. Hamas is saying that there should not be Israel. Why did it get submitted? Who had so much money to gather the heads of state of 10, 20 countries there, gather so many cabinet ministers, launch a mini-event there, and present Trump in front of everyone? Who has so much money to fund this? But one thing to you today, one thing which is said is not late, I will make a clear-cut prediction today.
I want to make a prediction today, like this, this war will start again because its basics cannot be fixed. I very strongly believe in my heart that there can be no peace between the Jews and the pedestrians. This cannot happen. That there can be no peace. There has never been peace between the Palestinians. I am talking about the entire West Asia and the area. Even if you look at Pakistan, you look at Bangladesh. Pakistan and Bangladesh must have seen Israel in their life. They have never seen Israel, and all these must be factored in. If you want permanent peace, how can there be permanent peace between these two? It can happen only when there is this physical force. Take the land in the middle. You cannot take any land from Israel or from the Gaza Strip, from wherever you want to take it, it does not matter. You can make it, and you will have a 5-kilometer no man’s land in the middle, in the middle of which there is their force of lakhs, there are helicopters, there are airstrips, there are fighter jets, they have everything in it. There are infantry, tanks, everything, and in the middle, there is a peacekeeping force standing, which is physically separating the American troops, multinational troops, everything. Unless you do this, there will be no peace between the two. These people who have gathered the masks of Donald Trump, to whom he is saying that because of this, he will do this, nothing is going to happen, the fight will start again.
How did the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict exacerbate Pakistan’s problems?
The clashes in the border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan dominated the headlines. However, a ceasefire has now been agreed upon. Meanwhile, Pakistan also implicated India in the conflict with Afghanistan, to which India’s Foreign Ministry responded strongly. It is noteworthy that when the conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan began, the Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister was visiting India. In such a situation, how is Pakistan worried about India-Afghanistan?
India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan mirror each other, yet how in Pakistan’s morning news, the Taliban in Tehri, Pakistan (TT), has been targeting military and police positions for years. Pakistan believes that TT is being confirmed from Kabul. Pakistan claims that India violated international law by bombing the border twice. Afghanistan says that Pakistan violated international law by attacking Kabul. Pakistan claims that the Afghan Army violated international law by shelling from Khurram to Chaman. Pakistan has offered its services to keep Afghanistan and Pakistan calm, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia are also standing behind the stone. The kind of ups and downs that have existed between our three countries for the last 80 years is actually Pakistan’s Afghan policy, whether it accepts this turmoil or Delhi. Pakistan has always felt that it is being sandwiched between the eastern front bordering India and the western front bordering Afghanistan. Therefore, keeping one of the two fronts calm has always been important for Pakistan, and its dream is that whichever government forms in Kabul should be, if not a friend, then at least not an enemy. To achieve this goal, Pakistan has sometimes supported one Afghan group and sometimes another, but each time the result has been the same threefold: whoever you support ends up siding with the government. Whether it’s the Mujahideen government after the end of communist rule or the first and second Taliban regimes after the fall of the Mujahideen government. When the US seized Kabul and Kandahar from the Taliban after 9/11, Hamid Karzai was crowned as the head of the Kandahar army. Karzai, among others, shifted to Afghanistan, and the Afghan Taliban began reducing their quotas under the pretext of stealing them. Even then, when the morning news of the TT attacks was being reported, Islamabad believed that these attacks were being confirmed by Hamid’s government in Kabul and the subsequent Ashraf Ghani government. India’s Jalalabad and Kandahar governments were also fueling the situation. When, in August 2021, after the withdrawal of the US, the Taliban once again captured Kabul, stealing the quotas. Pakistan was once again elated, thinking that this once again Afghan Taliban would stop TT from attacking inside Pakistan. On the contrary, the attacks kept increasing every year. This is called eating and drinking nothing, breaking a glass for 12 annas. If Pakistan had thought even once that the Taliban who lost their government instead of handing over Osama bin Laden to America, why would the same Taliban rein in TT on Pakistan’s request when TT and Afghanistan are ideological twin brothers of each other, what will be the result of this tension and how to keep it under control, right now we are all busy thinking that sometimes we have to open it with our teeth.
The US issued this warning as a bill was introduced to annex the West Bank.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the Israeli parliament’s move to annex the occupied West Bank could jeopardize the plan to end the war in Gaza. Israel’s far-right leaders have introduced a bill related to the West Bank in the Israeli parliament (Knesset). This bill would give Israel the right to annex the West Bank. However, this bill has not yet been enacted into law.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the Israeli parliament’s move to annex the occupied West Bank could jeopardize the Israeli parliament’s plan to end the war in Gaza. Before leaving for Israel, he said, “This is not something we support right now.” In today’s first story, we will learn what happened in the Israeli parliament that forced US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make this statement regarding the Gaza Peace Plan. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel as part of efforts to strengthen the US plan for Gaza and the ceasefire agreement. Israeli far-right leaders have introduced a bill related to the West Bank in the Senate. This bill gives Israel the right to annex the West Bank, although the bill has not yet become law. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli parliament’s move. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Palestinians say that the West Bank is part of Palestine. Last year, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court, ruled that this occupation by Israel is illegal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously spoken in support of annexing West Bank land to Israel, but he did not take any action on this matter. During the last leg of his visit to Israel, US Vice President Jed Ibn Taymiyyah said that if this was a political stunt, it was a very foolish political stunt, and I personally find it insulting. Jed Ibn Taymiyyah told reporters at the airport in Tel Aviv on Thursday that Israel will not annex the West Bank. The policy of the Supreme Court administration is that Israel will not annex the West Bank. This policy will remain ours. If people want to take a symbolic vote, they can do so, but we were certainly not happy with it. Ultra-nationalists in the ruling coalition of politicians have repeatedly called for the full annexation of the West Bank. However, this bill was introduced by lawmakers outside the government. It passed with 2524 votes. It is not clear whether it has the support needed to secure a majority in the 120-seat parliament. The bill will be discussed in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the acting House of Representatives. It will need to be passed three more times to become law. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the move, saying Israel will have no sovereignty over Palestinian land. Israel has built around 160 settlements during its occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, housing 700,000 Jews. An estimated 3.3 million Jews live alongside them. Boarding a plane to Israel, Rabi said that annexation of the West Bank would be counterproductive and dangerous to a peace agreement. He reiterated US opposition to annexation. His visit on Thursday comes shortly after visits by Vaughan and two US special envoys, as the Trump administration is trying to pressure the government to start negotiations on the second key phase of its 20-point Gaza peace plan. Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the agreement over the deadly attack. The second phase of the peace plan would include the establishment of a final government in Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli troops, and the discontinuation of Hamas’s offensive in Gaza. The war in Gaza is expected to begin on October 7, 2023, with a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel. The conflict began with the killing of approximately 1,200 people and the capture of 251 hostages. According to the government-run Health Ministry, more than 68,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the conflict.
Why is Israel concerned about the F-35 deal between the USA and Saudi Arabia?
Several sensitive issues have repeatedly surfaced in the US-Saudi Arabia relationship, ranging from defense deals and agreements to establishing relations with Israel. Now, two weeks before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the US, the issue of Saudi Arabia’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the US is resurfacing. The question arises: will this F-35 deal between the US and Saudi Arabia be a concern for Israel?
In the relations between the US and Saudi Arabia, many sensitive issues, from defense deals and agreements to establishing relations with Israel, have repeatedly surfaced. Now, two weeks before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the US, the issue of Saudi Arabia’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the US is again being raised. Two things have come to light in this regard. First, the US Defense Ministry, the Pentagon, has approved this project of the American dollar. It has also been announced that under this deal, Saudi Arabia will purchase 48 aircraft from the US. This raises the question of whether the F-35 deal between the US and Saudi Arabia will trouble Israel. The path to this agreement is not completely clear, at least not yet. To finalize this deal, approval of the US government, the US President, and Congress is necessary. Saudi writer Mubarak Al-Atiyah explained that if you understand this way, then permission will have to be taken from the government as well as Congress. Speaking to BBC Urdu, he said that only if US President Donald Trump succeeds in persuading Congress on this matter can he move forward on this agreement. Mubarak Atiyah said that this agreement, there will be pressure from Democrats and members of Congress to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. He says Trump has adopted the legislative process to approve the agreement because he considers Saudi Arabia a strategic ally and therefore believes that meeting its defense needs is essential to US foreign policy. Mubarak Allahdiya says that US President Donald Trump has expressed concern on several occasions that if the US refuses to meet Saudi Arabia’s defense needs, it could turn to US adversaries like China and Russia. If this deal is completed, it would signal a significant shift in US foreign policy. This would mean the possibility of challenging Israel’s military power in the Middle East. However, it is also possible that this agreement with Saudi Arabia includes conditions and arrangements that maintain Israel’s military superiority in the region. Mubarak Qal Atiya says that Trump wants to finalize the agreement because he understands the intentions of the Saudi leadership. Trump believes that Saudi Arabia’s ambitions go beyond the security of its borders. Alatiya says that, unlike some of its neighbors in the region, Saudi Arabia is expansionist. President Trump knows this. Although negotiations regarding this agreement began before Trump’s tenure, under his predecessor, Joe Biden, the Trump administration integrated it into a broader agreement that included Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel. However, these efforts were hampered after the recent attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. According to reports, Israel is not happy with the US selling F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. According to Israeli media reports, such a deal could pose a serious threat to Israel’s security in the future, especially if its relations with other Middle Eastern countries are not normalized. According to reports, Israel fears that Saudi Arabia may share F-35 fighter jet technology with Russia, China, or Iran. If this happens, Iran will take a step forward in its defense, diminishing Israel’s advantage over it. Similar concerns were raised in 2020 when the US was about to sell F-35 aircraft to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under the Abraham Accords. However, at that time, talks on the agreement were not taken further. The agreement could have been extended. The US had also imposed several restrictions on the aircraft’s operation, including conditions on its use. The US was concerned that the UAE’s close ties with China could lead to technology transfer.