By Afshain Afzal

In the latest development, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) along with some foreign troops dropped several bombs at Gaza's biggest hospital, “Al Shifa Hospital”. Continuing aerial bombardment and ground raids have been underway since yesterday when the last reports came in. Surprisingly, Washington and Tel Aviv, despite intense bombing and military operations have allowed the media to give coverage of Gaza. One wonders how these media persons got inside war zone without fear. US claims that it shared confirmed intelligence input with the IDF and agencies about the presence of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members inside the hospital.

The Israeli–American plot, although exposed beforehand is soon going to unfold a success story of the recovery of the Israeli hostages and the killing of their abductors. Interestingly, they themselves kidnapped Israelis and some foreigners and would also be freeing them from their own custody. Hamas did capture some POWs during house-to-house searches and combing operations but that is a separate venture. It is on record that Hamas did not kidnap even a single person from the dance and music festival at Kibbutz Re’im nor did they launch 7th October attack on Israel. No doubt, all this is being done to present it as evidence for the International Court of Justice.

Meanwhile, yesterday on 14 November 2023, the International Court of Justice, Hague took an attempt to give an advisory opinion regarding “Legal consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The International Court is supposed to give an opinion, “What are the legal consequences arising from the ongoing violation by Israel of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures.

The International Court also worked to establish, how do the policies and practices of Israel referred to in paragraph 18 (a) above affect the legal status of the occupation, and what are the legal consequences that arise for all States and the United Nations from this status?” Fourteen written comments were filed by 25 October and Pakistan was allowed to submit on 2 November 2023. Now the public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion are scheduled to open on 19 February 2024.

In fact, it is a well-chalked-out stunt to further misguide the world and prevent hateful feelings amongst the Arabs and Muslims leading to disallowing US Agency for International Development (USAID) and other similar organizations to operate in their countries, a strange drama has been staged where, ironically, the US State Department and USAID are campaigning against their President. Signed by 100 State Department and USAID employees wrote a dissent memo accusing President Joseph Biden of spreading misinformation in his remarks on 10 October 2023, about the Palestinian group Hamas' October 7^th attack on Israel. The unethical and illegal misadventure by US-Israel State-sponsored terrorism, killing many people and turning others homeless is too harsh to digest.

The UN, International humanitarian organizations, and peace-loving nations must take urgent measures to bring an immediate end to the Israeli bombardment and drama of the siege of Gaza to place fake evidence against orthodox Palestinian Muslims before the world community.

By Afshain Afzal

In the latest development, the Orthodox Muslim Palestinians fighting in Gaza announced the establishment of a “Palestinian Government in Exile”. Unlike Ismail Haniyah who surrendered before the Israelis and others, serving their interests along with some anti-Palestinian Muslim factions, the new Government claims to follow a peaceful struggle through the good office of United Nations Organizations and Muslim Ummah. Misleading death tolls and exaggerated events make the situation more complex. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan floated a plan including convening the international peace conference to find a permanent solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has the support of maximum Member nations of the United Nations.

 Speaking without disclosing the location or country, the new Prime Minister of Israel in exile said, “We would soon unfold the selected portions of the plan to establish a justice system in the illegitimate state of Israel and will bring will all the Palestinian refugees back to their lands from other lands to form a broad-based democratic government comprising of Muslim majority, Jews and Christian minority, holding (time-scaled) nationalities in present-day Israel. We support a two-state solution, and its implementation as per the UNO Partition Plan dated 29 November 1947. We are honored by the support Palestinians for Hamas by peace-loving Jews around the world calling for a ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli forces. We will ensure impartial inquiry through the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court against entities involved in War Crimes and terrorism since the 7th October attack inside Israel. Our aim is to bring a justice system to restore peace in the regions and around the world.”

Meanwhile, the leadership of Hamas in Gaza has confirmed that no Palestinian or the Hamas leadership has any plans to leave Gaza or immigrate to refugee camps elsewhere. Nahal Hasan, a Palestinian of Gaza said, “Our Prophets are buried in Gaza, Palestine and the graves of great forefathers are here why should we leave?” In the latest development, additional US forces and equipment have been moved to Jordan at US Force Headquarters, which Amman denies. An unnamed Jordanian military officer confirmed joint patrolling by Jordanian and foreign forces at the border. He said, “2,500 US troops are part of counter-terrorism force under an agreement. There are also reports of the deployment of anti-aircraft guns positioned at the Jordanian-Syrian border.

Earlier this November, Qatar facilitated the safe-exist of foreigners including Nadia Al Nakla’s Scotish-Christian mother and other foreigners through Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza, Palestine. One wonders what the family of Nadia Al Nakla was doing in Gaza during the Israeli attack on Gaza when even she never lived in Gaza and had schooling at Monifieth, Angus, Scotland.

Meanwhile, Norway and other countries are contacting Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and surrendered Palestinians abroad to give them fair chance to emerge as leaders. A few days back Norway announced an increase in her support to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Gaza by Norwegian Krone 25 million, which is part of Norwegian Krone 200 million allocated to humanitarian aid to Palestinians since 7 October 2023. The Norwegian People's Aid, The Norwegian Refugee Council, other organizations, and missionary agencies from around the world are set to enter any day to establish missionary schools, hospitals, and other assemblies to transform Palestinians into an open-minded modern nation.

There are a lot of hopes in the leadership of Turkey and Saudi Arabia as well as other nations convene an international peace conference to find a permanent solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Before attempting for peace efforts, Palestinians including Hamas must be taken into confidence. The Palestinians have shown faith in Turkey and Saudi Arabia along with other Muslim neighbours so the United Nations Security Council must replace the existing peacekeeping mission United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFL), United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) Golan and United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Middle East and grant mandate to the new arrangement or at least a reshuffle. We had a very bad experience by giving UN mandate to US and Western allies in Afghanistan and Iraq, which ruined the economies of both countries and it led to over 1.6 million killings of innocent Afghans, men women, and children alone. It also needs to be ensured that the management and control of Eastern Mediterranean gas reserves must remain in the hands of Palestinians.

By Afshain Afzal

A joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 11 November 2023, which was attended by leaders and heads of government of OIC countries. The views of Muslim leaders were divided on whether to provide consolidated support by securing focal points or wait for the results of peace efforts. Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan floated a two-pronged plan including convening of international peace conference to find a permanent solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Unlike the United States, Britain, and a good number of countries in the West, the Muslim countries, in Africa, Latin America, and other Asian countries do consider Hamas a terrorist authority and consider the organization as “legitimately defending their homeland”. There was also a difference of opinion over the acceptance and implementation of the UNO Partition Plan dated 29 November 1947 or the formation of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.

Meanwhile, the threat to the region and the world arising from repeated threats from Israeli state authorities to eliminate the entire leadership of Hamas and its followers as well as a serious threat by Israel's Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu's about Israeli plans to carry out a nuclear strike on Gaza. The Summit stressed the fact that the above statement by Israeli authorities proves that Israel possesses nuclear weapons and these nuclear bombs must be examined by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Interestingly, Iran's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes but sanctions have been imposed upon the Muslim nation while different sets of rules are allowed for Israel. It is high time that Tel Aviv must respect international law and peace efforts by the United Nations Organization as well as international humanitarian organizations. In another development, Hamas leadership in Gaza and Palestinians hailing from Israel forming a “Government in Exile”, will announce a response to Israeli demands and their own conditions. One hopes that efforts by Turkey and Saudi Arabia with the consultation of all Muslim nations to convene an International peace conference will bear results for a permanent solution for Palestine otherwise any other plan would be disastrous for the region as well as international peace.

By Afshain Afzal

Today, on 9 November 2023, Rouhi Fettouh, who heads the highest decision-making body of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is scheduled to meet Numan Kurtulmus, the Speaker of the Turkish parliament. These talks are to explore avenues for a joint roadmap to stop Israel's attacks targeting civilians in Gaza and look for other probable. The development came after the failure of the US Secretary of State's visit to Turkey on 5-6 November 2023. Other leaders including Azzam Al-Ahmad are optimistic and accepted Turkish and Saudi Arabian leadership for peace efforts.

Close aid to Palestinian top leader, Rouhi Fettouh said on the condition of anonymity, “Our leadership has decided to unite by shedding past grievances, however, surrendered-agent leaders and their allies including Ismail Haniyah will remain excluded”. This means Doha and Tehran would lose any mentionable role in peace and war efforts. However, Islamic unity demands the participation of all stakeholders, in all conflicts. The upcoming summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will be crucial for Gaza ceasefire and the permanent solution of the Palestine issue.

Meanwhile, the Israeli parliament “Knesset” seems convinced of a cease-fire otherwise, Tel Aviv would lose its assets in Iraq, Azerbaijan, and elsewhere. Earlier on 6 November, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed about likely agreement amongst members over Israel Defence Force tactical pauses, “from little pauses to cease fire” under terms and conditions including phased release of Israeli hostages. However, unofficial reports say that Hamas has rejected any language used in the declaration that calls Hamas or the Palestinians as “aggressors and terrorists”.

There are unconfirmed reports that civilian Jews living in the border towns of Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordon have requested Tel Avivi to allow them to flee Israel as a reaction to Netanyahu’s campaign to crush Hamas and stop humanitarian aid flow to Gaza is expected to come within a fortnight.

Meanwhile, in storage development, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, “US was having frank conversations with Israelis about trying to reduce the civilian death toll, but it was not directly involved in Israel’s targeting decisions nor was it helping develop the country’s operational plans for its invasion of Gaza”. In fact, Washington is trying to blackout from the onus of imposing war on unarmed Palestinians. The series of visits of CIA Director William Burns in the Middle East to attract intelligence partners and leaders of failed to produce the desired results.

The ruthless genocide of the Palestinian Muslims and salient observance by civilized nations speak out their inner truth. It has become impossible for the UN and aid partners including Human Rights activists to reach Gaza. The long queues of aid-dumped container trucks are waiting for weeks on the sides of roads to reach the Palestinians but Israelis and Westerners are not allowing passage to Gaza. It is a crime against humanity not to allow relief to the needy Palestinians through the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and other INGOs. World nations must pressure Israel and its partners to end war crimes in Palestine and allow peace to prevail. The author can be reached: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

By Afshain Afzal

Should the peace-loving people of the world ignore state-sponsored terrorism and insecurities through bluff games?

Despite Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinian orthodox Muslims after the 7th of October’s self-engineered attacks, Tel Aviv still hopes for peace through coercive means including the dropping of the nuclear bomb on the entire population of Gaza. A few days ago, Israeli leadership demanded that Arab states should normalise diplomatic relations with Israel to further the Abraham Accords. Washington also posed as the greatest champion of peace in this world by daring to send her Secretary of State to visit Ramallah in West Bank to pave the way for peace. Ironically despite the US State Department’s confirmation that Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the West Bank, Palestine on 5 November 2023 and that his trip was kept secret till the time Blinken had not physically left the West Bank, no one is ready to believe Washington as it is bluff game to mislead Jews, American taxpayer and the international media about US’ as part of Hybrid warfare. One wonders if Washington can prove US State Department’s spokesperson Matthew Miller statement of 5 November 2023, “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas”. No! Washington cannot, as it was a cock and bull story. In fact, other than a recent meeting in Jordan between Secretary of State Blinken and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in November 2023, no other meeting took place.

If we recall, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 30 December 2022, calling on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give its opinion on the legal implications of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. To fail the UN Resolution and influence the International Court of Justice, Secretary of State Blinken held meetings with expelled surrendered former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah and Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah to take them into confidence. Later, he also met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on 29 January 2023, and when the President of Palestine complaint about Israel's aggression where 35 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops, he was confronted with blame on Muslim Palestinians where seven civilians were shot dead in Jerusalem outside a synagogue to pressurize Mahmoud Abbas to agree to a two-state solution. Blinken, however, to win West Bank to its side, promised $50 million in new economic assistance to Palestinians over the next two years, on top of $890 million already pledged, and 4G high-speed telecom services in the West Bank.

Many people have questioned why would Israel Defence Forces attacked its own people on the 7th of October 2023, terrorist attacks, killing innocent Jews and later the Muslim Palestinians. The answer is quite simple, the landmark European Parliament recommendation on relations with the Palestinian Authority [2021/2207(INI)] dated of 12 July 2023, called on the Israeli military authorities to withdraw their designation of six Palestinian social and human rights organisations as terrorist, in order not to further reduce the space for Palestinian civil society, and also demanded that the PA establish independent and reliable mechanisms to investigate occurrences of torture or ill-treatment and other human rights violations within its territory to hold security forces accountable for instances of arbitrary arrest, abuse, and torture, immediately release all political prisoners and drop all charges; condemn the continued use of torture by the Palestinian authorities. More so, the expected International Court of Justice’s opinion on the legal implications of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories would be a bombshell for the Israelis and Americans as all was going well in favour of Hamas as a seasoned political authority that does not follow the ideology of any militant group.

We cannot ignore the fact that even a country like Saudi Arabia which was previously portrayed as a country professing extremist ideology and threat to world peace agreed to normalize her relations with Israel, subject to the implementation of the resolution of the Palestine question on the basis of UNO Partition Plan dated 29 November 1947, with Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. The fact cannot be denied that Saudi Arabia even allowed Israeli Tourism and Heritage Ministers to visit Saudi Arabia to participate in a UN conference in Riyadh in September/ October 2023. But Washington is threatening the Saudi Kingdom that Riyadh would require US’ continuous security from Israel, Iran, and Yemen. If we recall, Saudi Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman recently visited Washington and held a meeting with US Secretary of State and discussed ways to end Israeli aggression against unarmed Palestinians. When Saudi Arabia did not agree to the Israeli and American plans of replacing Hamas’s control over Gaza, the Saudi delegation was reminded about the threats to the very existence of the Kingdom. Brigadier General Pat Ryder, Pentagon issued a statement after a meeting between US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Saudi importance of the enduring US security partnership with Saudi Arabia and Washington’s commitment to the territorial defense of the Kingdom. The USS Carney, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer has been positioned over the Northern Red Sea at Western Yemen.

Hizbullah, which previously owned responsibility for the planning and execution phases of the attack on Israel has gone into denial mode while Iran which earlier claimed her sponsorship has totally denied any direct or indirect role. In a recent statement, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrullah denied any hand in the 7 October or later attacks on Israel and said, “Even the Palestinians had kept it secret even from their fellow Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza.” Similarly, Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, President Ibrahim Raisi, and the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Hussein Salami have denied any role in attacks on Israel or the Israeli population. In this game of bluff and coercion to isolate orthodox Muslim leaderships including Hamas from Palestine and convert the Orthodox Muslim majority in Asia, especially in the geographical expression Middle East” and “Central Asia” a laboratory of rule by broad-based representations of all factions of societies on religious grounds, as in Lebanon. It is high time that the International Court of Justice must take into account the suffering and genocide of the Palestinian nation at the hands of international players and resolve the issue once and for all. Author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

By Afshain Afzal

The peace-loving Jews of USA, Israel, Britain and Ireland do not know that a game of blood and horrifying genocide is being played in their names. In a recent development, US State Department confirmed that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited West Bank, Palestine on 5 November 2023, but the trip was kept secret till the time Blinken had not physically left the West Bank. Attributing to Spokesperson Matthew Miller on 5 November 2023, said, “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.” International Media groups and channels have also run stories of the Secretary of State's courteous visit to West Bank in the midst of protests and angry Palestinian mobs. Those, which covered the Secretary of State’s visit to the West Bank, included all the media around the world. However, the fact cannot be denied that US Secretary of State Blinken never visited West Bank or Palestinian territories after the 7 October 2023, attacks.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on 29 January 2023, where the President of Palestine complaint about Israel's aggression where 35 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops and seven civilians were shot dead by a Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem outside a synagogue on Friday and agreed in principle to two-state solution. Blinken promised $50 million in new economic assistance to Palestinians over the next two years, on top of $890 million already pledged, and 4G high-speed telecom services in the West Bank. Later on 4 November 2023, Secretary of State Blinken met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan. There is no other visit that Washington can claim.

 In fact, US is trying to act as a peacemaker but the Palestinians have rejected any mediation by the Western partners of Israel including some Muslim countries as these facilitators are accountable under, “State Sponsored Terrorism” and party to “Israeli War Crimes ” including the genocide of Palestinian orthodox Muslims. Secretary of State is quoted to have said, “We’re working very hard to make sure that the conflict in Gaza does not escalate, does not spread to other places. Whether it’s here, whether it’s elsewhere in the region,” but who carried out attacks on Syria, Iraq and Saudi border? Even after 7 October attacks, the Pentagon confirmed, “Since our self-defense strikes on 26 October, there’ve been six additional… three in Iraq, three in Syria. Right now, we’re tracking a total of 27 attacks, sixteen in Iraq, eleven in Syria”.

 Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is hosting an extraordinary meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on 12 November 2023, at Riyadh. There is a demand from the Muslim nations implementation of UNO Partition Plan dated 29 November 1947, with Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. If we recall, on 30 December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give its opinion on the legal implications of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. In addition to this, those nations who are accomplices in the Israeli genocide of Palestinian orthodox Muslims of Gaza and other war crimes must be trialed on the charges of “State-Sponsored terrorism”. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other Muslim and Latin American and African countries have plans to bring peace and demand accountability of war criminals and terrorists. 

It is high time that the United Nations Organizations, which have been made hostages through blackmailing of closure of all funding and killing of its workers in Gaza, be empowered to restore peace and implement laws of terrorism upon the nations who are engaged in these crimes. In the US, international terrorism is designated pursuant to three laws: section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act. Hence, sanctions include restrictions on receiving foreign assistance from countries involved; a ban on their defense exports and sales; financial and other restrictions as well as penalizing countries and individuals engaged in trade with them. To bring a halt to the evil of terrorist activity, Israel along with allies’ assets must be blocked including individuals and entities that pose a risk of committing acts of terrorism.

By Afshain Afzal
Under the tremendous pressure of international isolation, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today's  5th November 2023, visit to Turkey is significant. A day earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced, “Gaza must be part of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital once the Israel-Hamas war is over, and Ankara will not support any plans gradually erasing Palestinians from history”. Turkey has already announced that Ankara does not view Hamas as a terrorist organization and recalled its Ambassador to Israel, Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, for consultations, after Israel recalled its envoys to Turkey last month on recognizing Hamas as freedom fighters, as well as due to Israeli bombing on Gaza. If we recall, Saudi Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman visited Washington and held a meeting with US Secretary of State and discussed ways to end Israeli aggression against unarmed Palestinians. Saudi Arabia did not agree to the plans of replacing Hamas’s control over Gaza. The movement of Turkish Naval Fleet in the Mediterranean and consultations with other nations is quite alarming for the Westerners.
Israeli leadership including the Prime Minister and Defence Minister issued statements including, "We will wipe this thing called Hamas off the face of the earth”, “Any place Hamas deploys, in this evil city, all the places Hamas is hiding, operating, we will turn it into a ruin”. There is on-ground evidence of the same in Gaza where thousands of orthodox Muslim men, women, and children have been targeted as part of genocide. One wonders why world is silent spectators.
Today, US, Israel, Britain, France, and other allies, party to Israel's war crimes and planned genocide of Palestinian Orthodox Muslims are facing their trials of conscience.  A number of countries have withdrawn their Ambassadors from Israel, some of them expelled Israeli Ambassadors from their countries while others are planning to do the same. Some of the countries that withdrew their Ambassadors include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, Pakistan (which already has no diplomatic relations with Israel), Afghanistan, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru and El Salvador, South Africa, Iraq etc.
The “Abu Righal”, a legendary traitor in pre-Islamic legend of the Muslim world must stir their consciences. The same message is for God-fearing Davidians, Jews, and Christians, the followers of Divine religions that they must follow their religion in true letter and spirit; the Justice system commanded by their Prophets. Indeed, it is a test case to open the eyes of peace-loving people of our world to get UNO and International Human Rights organizations as well as media free from the evil perpetrators of war crimes and genocide.

By Afshain Afzal

MAINWALI, 4 NOVEMBER 2023, TON: In an incident at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) training base at Mainwali, a fuel tanker was completely destroyed and minor damage was caused to three grounded aircraft. Witnesses on the site of the incident claimed, “We have seen that minor damage to the unserviceable old aircrafts and fuel tanker was due to the firing of security personnel”. It could not be as yet confirmed through independent sources about firing on civilians at the PAF gate.

Press release issued by military authorities said, “On 04 November 2023, in the early hours of the day, Mianwali Training Air Base of Pakistan Air Force came under a failed terrorist which Allahamdullah due to the swift and effective response by the troops has been foiled and thwarted ensuring the safety and security of personnel and assets, demonstrating exceptional courage and timely response 3 x terrorists were neutralized while entering the base remaining three terrorists have been cornered/ isolated due to timely and effective responses by the troops. However, during the attack some damage to three already grounded aircrafts and a fuel bowser also occurred. A comprehensive joint clearance and combing operation is in final stages to clear the area. Pakistan Armed Forces remains committed to eliminating menace of terrorism from the country at all costs.”

By Afshain Afzal

Backing out from the earlier claims that Israel Defense Forces have pushed their way inside Gaza and surrounded the stronghold of Hamas on Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a new statement on 3 November 2023, with images as proof that Israel has launched a ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Gallant, said, “We are clashing with Hamas and have killed numerous terror operatives”. He added. “Israeli Army is advancing according to the plan.” Interestingly this fake news has not been confirmed by Hamas Political Authority. One Palestinian admitted that she saw two old version tanks but no movement going back. Many Palestinians have admitted that the “baby killers” have intensified aerial bombing and drone attacks, martyring scores of innocent women and children. Scattered bodies, especially dead bodies of infants and children reflected horrifying scenes of terrorism.

One Palestinian said, “We are the original inhabitants of Palestine and Gaza, why we should leave… the graves of our great great grandfathers are here in this land. Our only sin is that being followers of the Divine religion of Hazrat Mussa (Alhe Salam) and Hazrat Eassa (Alhe Salam) we started believing in the last Prophet Mohammad Alhe Salam (Sal Allah Alhe Wasalam)”. We will not allow so-called Indian Jews and Persian Jews to take away our ancestral lands”. Another Palestinian said, “Our Prophets Alhe Salam are buried in this sacred land and there are our holy places. We do not stop Jews from paying homage under the law”.

Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces have asked their commanders that they cannot operate under international pressure dubbing Israelis as aggressors, barbaric, and war criminals. There were reports of Inquiry of some of the Israeli personnel and their officers under the charge of cowardice. Some tanks entered Gaza and when faced with no resistance… rushed back as it seemed a trap to arrest more Israelis and kill them through the Palestinian public.

In another development, after Tehran disassociated with war on Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah said in a public speech that his group is not moved by US warnings to stay out of the war. In another statement, he admitted Hezbollah has not announced war on Israel and talks with Americans and Lebanese leadership is in progress”. Apparently, in another positive development, the Palestinian Political Authority have announced that they would release “Terms of Peace and their demands” in the next one or two days. Hamas authority in Gaza has not denied this report, however, no further details were available. One wonders if Israeli leadership announced a call for a “Peace Dialogue”, they would not be facing humiliation or it would injure their prestige rather they would regarded as true followers of Moses (May Peace be Upon Him). It is a golden chance for peace rather both sides should continue mourning their loved ones.

By Afshain Afzal

In the latest development, King Salman bin Abdulaziz has donated Saudi Riyal 30 million while Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has donated Saudi Riyal 20 million to the Palestinians of Gaza. In another development, the Saudi Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, has met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington and discussed ways to end Israeli aggression against unarmed Palestinians of Gaza. However, Washington has some other plans too where Secretary of State Blinken will visit Israel, Jordan, Tokyo, Japan, Korea, and India from 2 to 10 November 2023.

There is no doubt, that Israel played an aggressor but the actors who desire to continue creating a rift between Jews and Muslims to keep them away from the path of peace are this time unsuccessful. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, a spokesperson for the Houthi forces, in a statement to local TV said, “Our armed forces launched a large batch of ballistic and winged missiles and a large number of drones at various targets of the Israeli enemy.” Brigadier General Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary said, “The missiles were fired by Houthi forces in Yemen and were launched toward targets in Israel but US warship near the coast of Yemen shot down four cruise missiles and 15 drones over a period of nine hours as they were heading north along the Red Sea. These statements were only meant to win the Jewish card and earn billions of dollars under the head of “Security of Jewish State against Muslim Terrorism”. The Jewish civilians must have realized by now that Hamas is not a terrorist organization not Muslims are against the Jews, however, recognition of State of Israel is a separate issue.

Washington has exposed some of its cards; using Iran to capture the stage but it failed. Then it was Hizbullah but it failed too. It was followed by Qatar as chief negotiator and persuading Palestinians to leave Gaza and bring surrendered expelled Hamas but it failed. Now it is Houthi rebels in Yemen but nothing much is expected that may change the scenario. As things are unfolding, it can be safely said that Israel and Hamas are going to have a dialogue very soon through the good offices of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. There is no doubt that Israeli Shin Bet and Mossad planned extremely well along with above actors and attacked their own people on Israel innocent Jew civilians as well as some military personnel on 7th October. The state-sponsored terrorism and drama to build consensus against Hamas has been exposed and it is time that peace efforts in the Middle East, especially Statehood to the Palestinians must be worked out before it ends with chaos and disaster in other parts of the world.

If we recall, a Houthi delegation visited Saudi Arabia in the third week of September 2023 and there was agreement in principle on a ceasefire between Saudi Arabia and Yemen but after the announcement that Saudi ambassador to Palestine, Nayef al-Sudairi would visit West Bank on 26 September, a day earlier on 25 September, a suspected Houthi drone attack at Saudi-led coalition near Saudi Arabia border with Yemen killed at least four Bahraini soldiers and wounded multiple others. Similarly, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a statement said, “We need to use the last political opportunities to stop the war and if the situation gets out of control, no side will be safe from its consequences.” The U.S. intelligence community has also issued a clean chit that Iran is not currently seeking a direct war with the US and is not behind the 7 October attack on Israel. We should not forget that politeness in the tone is due to US agreement with Iran to transfer $6 billion in frozen funds through Qatar. As things are reflecting a clearer picture, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are attempting to resolve the issue. It is high time that both Jews and Muslims of the sacred land of Palestine must cooperate to bring long-lasting peace.