The “yellow line” that divides Gaza under Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan is a “new border” for Israel, the country’s military chief told soldiers deployed in the territory.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says-military-chief/ar-AA1RXIuO?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=69379bbddba64ea0a4aab7e80cbd6c1e&ei=35
The chief of the general staff, Eyal Zamir, said Israel would hold on to its current military positions. These give Israel control of more than half of Gaza, including most agricultural land and the border crossing with Egypt.
“The ‘yellow line’ is a new border line, serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity,” Zamir said during a visit to meet Israeli reservists in northern Gaza, where he also visited the ruins of the Palestinian towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya.
“We have operational control over extensive parts of the Gaza Strip and we will remain on those defence lines,” Zamir said, according to an English-language transcript of his remarks provided by a military spokesperson.
Palestinians were forced out of this eastern portion of Gaza by Israeli attacks and evacuation orders. Almost all the surviving population, over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone of coastal sand dunes that is smaller than Washington DC.
Zamir’s commitment to keep troops in Gaza appears to contradict the ceasefire agreement signed in October, which specifies that “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza”.
Trump’s 20-point plan commits the Israeli military to “progressively hand over” Palestinian territory to an international security force until they have “withdrawn completely from Gaza”, barring a small security perimeter by the border.
The Israeli government declined to comment on whether Zamir’s statement reflected official policy. An official said Israeli forces were “deployed in Gaza in accordance with the ceasefire outline” and accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire.
The ceasefire agreement links the departure of Israeli forces to the demilitarisation of Hamas, without laying out a mechanism or a timeframe for that to happen.
A UN resolution passed last month authorised the creation of an international security force but no countries have committed troops to stand it up. Some have expressed interest in joining a peacekeeping force, but none want to risk their soldiers being ordered to fight Hamas, despite pressure from the Trump administration.
The Israeli army has built new concrete outposts along the “yellow line” to fortify its positions and declared it a lethal boundary, even though it is not always clearly marked and a ceasefire is in place. Soldiers have repeatedly killed Palestinians they accuse of crossing it, including young children.
Concrete bollards laid out to mark some stretches of the line have also been used to expand Israel’s military occupation of Gaza. Satellite images show that some markers have been placed hundreds of metres beyond the boundary agreed on ceasefire maps.
The US military has also been planning for the long-term partition of Gaza along the “yellow line”, and one US official has desccribed reunification as “aspirational”.
Documents seen by the Guardian envisage the territory split into a “green zone” under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a “red zone” to be left indefinitely in ruins.
Hamas will not disarm, give up its weapons, rule of the Gaza Strip, or permit external oversight in Gaza, including the International Stabilization Force (ISF), terror leader Khaled Mashaal said during a video address to an Istanbul conference titled "Pledge to Jerusalem" on Saturday.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-s-khaled-mashaal-we-will-not-disarm-give-up-control-in-gaza-or-accept-in-tl-oversight/ar-AA1RRcLB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ASTS&cvid=6935be0f61c549fc8f55324fc5f3cd56&ei=33
Israel's Foreign Ministry, sharing footage of Mashaal's address, slammed the comments, calling them a "direct contradiction of the core terms of the peace plan itself."
"Hamas is making a mockery of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan," the ministry added.
Images have emerged of a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in which Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian men who appear to be unarmed and in the process of surrendering. The Palestinian TV news footage was filmed during an ongoing Israeli military operation in the city of Jenin. The men are seen exiting a building surrounded by armed Israeli forces. After appearing to surrender, Israeli forces then seem to open fire at close range. The Israeli military and police say the men were wanted men 'affiliated with a terror network' and that the incident is being investigated.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nlV0LCeDnw
#Jenin #WestBank #IDF
Last week, the United Nations Security Council adopted the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8fwb7Yz-VHA
Resolution 2803 effectively makes the United States and Israel the joint rulers of Gaza, aided by complicit governments from the region and around the world.
It creates a so-called International Stabilization Force controlled by the United States and Israel and authorized to use “all necessary measures” to disarm the Palestinian resistance on Israel’s behalf.
“This shameful resolution on Gaza by the UN Security Council is fundamentally inconsistent with international law. It is a colonial fantasy which has little precedent in the UN’s history. It will likely fail and must be rejected by all states and individuals,” said independent UN expert Balakrishnan Rajagopal, echoing widespread condemnation.
They're all hypocrites and cowards. Just like the UN. BIG WORD'S WITH NO MEANINGS.
Of course Russia and China threw Palestine under the bus. Riding Israel's coattails down in flames does enormous damage to the US, and Russia and China aren't about to stop it. It's called self interest.
They didn't veto it cause Russia n china know Israel n the usa will fail in Gaza.
I'm severely disappointed in Russia and China. They should have proved their moral superiority using their vetoes! WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM!!!!
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addressed the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine, stating that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is critical.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fB4ckX_itU
She described Gaza as “a crime scene” and accused Israel of annexation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.
A month and a half into Trump's Gaza plan, progress seems sluggish.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1IeSkFeO64
Detailed plans for the next stage - Israel's military withdrawing, Hamas disarming, and steps toward a Palestinian state - are yet to be seen.
Instead, senior US and Israeli officials talk of a "New Gaza", to be rebuilt under Israeli occupation and the "Old Gaza" left to rubble under Hamas' control.
So, could the Yellow Line running through the strip become what some Israeli officials call "Gaza's Berlin Wall"?
As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ceasefires, one thing has become clear: this isn’t just about Palestine. It’s about Western supremacy, empire, and the racism that underpins them both.
To discuss this, Rania Khalek is joined by Dr. Ghada Karmi — academic, physician, and Nakba survivor — who has written powerfully about how Western imperialism, Arab complicity, and Zionism’s own contradictions have led us here. Dr. Karmi is a former research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and author of many books including “One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.”
She has spent her life exposing the deeper roots of this catastrophe: the colonial mindset that made Palestine disposable, the Western guilt that turned Jewish suffering into Palestinian punishment, and the moral rot that allows genocide to be broadcast live without consequence.
Chapters:
0:00 Teaser
1:38 Intro
4:02 Reflections on this moment
6:00 Are you surprised?
9:52 War on children
12:13 Ghada’s childhood before and during the Nakba
20:18 The New York Times living on top of Ghada’s ethnically cleansed family home
31:49 Western Racism & Delusion
39:21 Western Guilt for Europe’s Crimes
45:15 Israel has no future in the Middle East
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One state is the only way forward
World’s failure to stand up
Editors discuss the ongoing US efforts to put together an "International Stabilization Force" in the Gaza Strip.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcWkHRCyeE
The Israeli military has launched an attack on Gaza, as Israel continued to trade blame with Palestinian militant group Hamas over violations of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire aiming to end the war in the enclave, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Jerusalem, Noga Tarnopolsky.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMUJp_PWYNg
#ceasefire #Israel #Gaza
As Donald Trump tries to take credit for a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel continues to kill Palestinians. And as both Israeli and Palestinian captives are released, the glaring double standards in coverage lay bare how this genocide was allowed to go on for so long.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNWmHjbDJs
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