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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicIsrael-Palestine

Topic: Israel-Palestine

Urdu dailies slam Modi govt for siding with Israel & international community’s ‘double standards’

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

How India went from voting against Israel’s creation to being its brother in arms

In 1999, as Delhi faced Western sanctions in light of Pokhran, Israel came to India’s aid during the Kargil war. The relationship has seen new milestones under Modi govt. 

In this war of dead baby pictures, yours versus mine, the question of who’s the victim will be lost

Benjamin Netanyahu persisting with his sledgehammer approach where a scalpel might have worked is not wise. In the war of dead-baby pictures, the question of who’s the real victim will inevitably be obfuscated.

Palestinians stuck between ‘Islamic & Jewish fundamentalists’, says Palestine activist

Ghassan Abdallah, 81, moved to Palestinian city of Ramallah in 1994, hoping peace would prevail. Now, he feels there's hardly any hope of Palestinian state amid Israel-Hamas war. 

Hamas has defeated the cause of Palestine. A neutral India will find it difficult to tread

India’s support to Israel might lead to major differences of opinion with Iran where India’s economic engagement competes with those of China.

Israel must internationally annihilate Hamas. Just destroying their military won’t be enough

International support has bought Israel time to plan and execute a response to Hamas. But the window for action will close over time.

Assembly polls on the way & ‘along a Middle East intersection’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Guest’ who cheated death 5 times — Mohammed Deif, shadowy Hamas chief behind deadly attack on Israel

In his 60s, Deif has been the leader of Hamas’s military wing since 2002. Tel Aviv came close to eliminating him in an air strike in 2014 that killed his wife & his child.

UN Secretary General urges Israel to halt, reverse settlement decisions in West Bank

Calling the decisions 'troubling and alarming,' UN deputy spokesperson stated that UN Chief Guterres reiterates the settlements as flagrant violation of international law.

Israel, Palestine officials pledge moves to curb violence ahead of Ramadan

In previous years, Ramadan has occasionally seen clashes between Israeli police & Palestinians, particularly around Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.