Gaza: Has the "Yellow Line" turned into a tool for re-engineering Israeli enemy domination over the sector? The term "Yellow Line" has recently emerged as one of the terms associated with the political and media discussions surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to stop the aggression on Gaza and the related stages of implementing that plan.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Israeli enemy appears to be exploiting the current circumstances in the Gaza Strip, resulting from the genocide crime it committed against the sector and its population, to achieve goals outside the scope of the plan and the ceasefire agreement. Recent movements of enemy forces within the sector indicate a desire to carve out and annex parts of the Gaza Strip's area and seize them under various pretexts and names, working to re-engineer the borders in Gaza.
The recent repeated breaches by the Israeli enemy forces of the so-called "Yellow Line" to distances that penetrate deeper into the sector, contrary to what was agreed upon in the ceasefire terms, is evidence of this Israeli trend that violates international laws. These unilateral measures also contradict the Trump peace plan. The "Yellow Line" is a temporary, imaginary boundary imposed by the United States as part of its three-phase ceasefire proposal. It aims to separate enemy forces and civilian areas after their withdrawal from the contact zones specified by the plan.
Statements by Zionist officials about what they wish to be a new status regarding the borders between Gaza and the Zionist entity contribute to this. This includes the statement by the Israeli enemy's Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, that the Yellow Line "has become Gaza's new border." Reacting to the Israeli official's statement, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, St©phane Dujarric, said, "The statement by the Chief of Staff of the Israeli enemy army that the Yellow Line is Gaza's new border contradicts the Trump peace plan."
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced its categorical rejection of the statements by the Chief of Staff of the Zionist enemy regarding his declaration that "the Yellow Line constitutes Gaza's new border." A member of Hamas's political bureau, Hussam Badran, said in press statements that "Zamir's statements regarding the Yellow Line confirm that the enemy is not committed to the ceasefire agreement." He stressed that "the continued demolition of Palestinian homes and houses in the areas controlled by the enemy (behind the Yellow Line) also forms part of the military operations that should have stopped from the first day but continues until now."
In the same context, Cuba condemned the "Israeli" announcement of establishing a high-fire temporary line in Gaza as a new border between Gaza and the Israeli entity. Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodrguez, said in a post on the "X" platform, "We condemn Israel's announcement of a high-fire temporary line, and we consider it a red line, as a new border between Gaza and 'Israel'."
In a related context, the Palestinian Return Centre provided a legal and political briefing to a number of British Parliament members and relevant government bodies, addressing UN Security Council Resolution 2803 related to the Gaza Strip, warning of its serious repercussions on the rights of the Palestinian people, UNRWA's mandate, and the future of reconstruction and return.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that the proposed American plan regarding dividing the Gaza Strip entrenches a dangerous reality of long-term illegal control and amounts to a de facto annexation of territories by force, in flagrant violation of international law rules. The Monitor explained in a post on the "X" platform that the plan imposes multiple forms of unlawful collective confinement on the civilian population by fragmenting the sector and isolating its areas.
In an analysis published by the Arab Center for Research and Strategic Thinking, writer Ahmed Al-Tanani said that the "Yellow Line" has gradually turned into the axis of field events in the besieged sector. He noted that "the real danger does not lie in the deployment itself, but in its gradual transformation into one of the forms of imposing long-term realities, through an Israeli deployment with an unknown withdrawal date."
For its part, the "Arabi Post" website questioned how the Israeli enemy is imposing a fait accompli through the "Yellow Line." Trump's plan defined the "Yellow Line" as a temporary location for the deployment of the Israeli enemy army. It was assessed as a temporary technical measure aimed at stabilizing calm on the ground and ensuring no friction between the enemy army and the population during the calm process.
Field data indicate that the Israeli enemy army now controls 199.14 km² out of 365.02 km², equaling 54.5% of the Gaza Strip's area, within the "Yellow Line" only. According to the data, the actual "Israeli" control over the Gaza Strip's area equals 63.8% of the Gaza Strip's area, while the Palestinian population is left with only about 36.15% of the sector's area. The "Arabi Post" sees that the Yellow Line today represents one of the most important elements of Israeli maneuvering in Gaza.
Through its definition, displacement, expansion, and consecration as a fire zone, the Yellow Line has become a central element in the Israeli enemy government's strategy for re-engineering the geographic and security environment in Gaza. This is what a study by the Palestinian Center for Political Studies said. It also noted that the Israeli enemy government deals with the "Yellow Line" not as a temporary withdrawal point but as a nucleus for a moving security belt capable of expansion and contraction.
The study concludes that the line has become a negotiation element par excellence, as the Israeli enemy government can signal advancing or retreating from it, link this retreat to sensitive files, and use it to slow down the implementation of the truce or impose new conditions.