• Pakistan seeks safe, open aid corridors and full backing for UNRWA.
• A halt to forced displacement and new Israeli settlements.
• Return of land and property seized since 1967.

Pakistan reaffirmed its unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people, asking the world to act now with a demand for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Addressing the session of the OIC Committee of Six on Palestine on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, said that Pakistan will advance peace in the Middle East as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council 2025-2026.

He said that Israel’s offensive that it launched after October 2023 has left more than 63,000 Palestinians dead and 94,000 wounded, the majority of them are women and children.

He said Israeli forces are systematically targeting “homes, hospitals, schools, aid convoys and shelters” in breach of international law.

The minister stressed that settler violence and military raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are intensifying “under an extremist Israeli leadership determined to bury the two-state solution”.

“This is a defining moment for the Middle East and the Muslim world,” he said.

“The momentum generated by the High-Level International Conference on Implementation of the Two-State Solution must be sustained.”

The minister also suggested the OIC press for:

1. An immediate, unconditional and permanent cease-fire.
2. Safe, open aid corridors and full backing for UNRWA, the UN agency that keeps millions of Palestinians alive.
3. A halt to forced displacement and new Israeli settlements.
4. Return of land and property seized since 1967.
5. The right of Palestinian refugees to go home.
6. Trials for war crimes and payment for damage done.
7. Respect for every ICJ ruling.
8. A Gaza rebuilding scheme led by Arab and Islamic states.
9. A proper international protection force for Palestinians.
10. A fully independent State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem (Al-Quds Al-Sharif) as its capital, and a seat at the United Nations.

• Trump hails meeting Muslim leaders and praises their efforts.
• Proposes Israeli withdrawal and Gaza rule without Hamas.
• US seeks Arab troops and funds for Gaza’s rebuilding.

US President Donald Trump’s meeting with leaders of Muslim-majority nations, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly focused on the situation in Gaza and the wider Middle East.

Participants included Turkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Egypt, the UAE and Jordan.

The 50-minute meeting saw Trump call it an honour to meet Islamic leaders and praise their efforts, saying, “You all have done an excellent job, which is commendable.” 

The Turkish President described the talks as extremely productive. None of the other Muslim leaders spoke to the media after the meeting.

Later, Trump declared the meeting extremely important and spoke to the media about ending the Gaza war, saying it could possibly be concluded soon. He added, “We are going to end something that we did not start.”

He also outlined US plans for an Israeli withdrawal and post-war governance in Gaza without Hamas involvement, according to US media. 

Washington is seeking Arab and Muslim nations’ agreement to send troops to Gaza to enable Israel’s withdrawal and to fund transition and rebuilding programmes, Axios reported.

As per Al-Jazeera, the Gaza plan was reportedly not drafted by Israel, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been made aware of the details. It is believed to envisage some future involvement by the Palestinian Authority (PA), something Israel has repeatedly said it will not tolerate.

Israel faces global condemnation over its military conduct in Gaza, where local health authorities say more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed. 

In recent weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has begun a long-threatened ground assault on Gaza City, with no ceasefire in sight.

But Washington remains Israel’s staunchest ally.

The US and Israel boycotted a summit in New York on Monday convened by France and Saudi Arabia, where dozens of world leaders gathered at the United Nations to embrace a Palestinian state.

No matter how many countries recognise Palestinian independence, full UN membership would require approval by the Security Council, where the United States has a veto that it frequently uses to oppose resolutions that are critical of Israel.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backed the moves for recognition while speaking at the Security Council later on Tuesday.

“This is the clearest path to a two-State solution: Israel and an independent, sovereign, democratic, viable and contiguous State of Palestine,” he said. “We must seize this momentum.”

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he believes Ukraine, with the support of the European Union and NATO, can win back all of the territory Russia has taken since its invasion.

Trump, who met with Ukraine’s leader at the United Nations earlier on Tuesday, has previously said that both Kyiv and Moscow would have to cede land to end the war.

“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original borders from where this war started, is very much an option,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

In the post, Trump criticised Russia’s prosecution of the war, saying it had been fighting “aimlessly” in a war that a “real military power” would have won in “less than a week.”

“Putin and Russia are in BIG economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act,” the post continues.

Trump said the US will continue to supply weapons to NATO “for NATO to do what they want with them.”