Giovanni Legorano
Early in December, Israel’s military chief raised the alarm of the international community, saying the so-called yellow line in Gaza is the country’s new boundary with the enclave. “We will not allow Hamas to reestablish itself. We have operational control over extensive parts of the Gaza Strip, and we will remain on those defense lines,” the chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Eyal Zamir, told troops in Gaza. “The yellow line is a new border line, serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity.”
Israeli troops have withdrawn east of this line, which was drawn as part of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire plan last October, but not any further. The result is a Gaza split in two, with a buffer controlled by the IDF, surrounding and sealing the inner section. The Israeli military has already laid out concrete bollards to mark some stretches of the line, according to a report by the Guardian. The area under Israeli military control amounts to more than half of the original territory of the strip, with estimates varying from 53 percent to 58 percent.
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