“The army is implementing a large-scale engineering project: constructing a ground barrier stretching for many kilometres along the line.” An in-depth Haaretz investigation into what’s becoming the new border in Gaza: the Yellow Line and its deadly impact on Palestinians🧵
“The area around the line is an active firing zone, with ongoing Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling and small-arms fire. According to the UN, more than 200 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in its vicinity.”
Will Edmond, the head of Doctors Without Borders' mission in Gaza: "Over the past months we have treated many patients who were injured by gunshots and explosives around the Yellow Line while carrying out daily tasks. People don't know exactly where it is
And are injured [...] while going to their homes, getting water or collecting firewood. Another problem is that as the line steadily moves west, essential services such as water points and healthcare sites are being swallowed into the Yellow Line…"
“The separation line leaves more than half of the Strip in IDF hands, and there is currently no detailed mechanism regulating a withdrawal from it [...] Some 2.1 million Gazans are now crowded into less than half the area they lived in before the war”
“The Yellow Line was intended to be temporary, but more than five months have passed since U.S. President Donald Trump published his plan to end the war and outline stages of a phased IDF withdrawal. In practice, the army is deepening its hold on the area.”
“Analysis of satellite imagery shows that the IDF has established positions across the northern, eastern and southern Strip. It currently holds at least 32 outposts, most of them built before the cease-fire.”
“Many of the outposts are located amid the ruins of former agricultural and residential areas. Two were built on sites where mosques stood prior to the war, and another is located on a cemetery destroyed during the fighting.”
"Another manifestation of the consolidation of the separation line are earth berms erected north, east and south of the Hamas-controlled area along the Yellow Line. Their total length exceeds 17 kilometers (10.5 miles), about 40 percent of the line's full length (45 kilometers)."
Read the full investigation by @YardenMichaeli in @haaretzcom:
haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
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