Israel has moved concrete blocks marking its post-ceasefire line of control deeper into Gaza in several locations, according to satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify. The blocks are used to illustrate what Israeli military maps describe as the Yellow Line.

In at least three areas — Beit Lahia, Jabalia, and al-Tuffah — Israeli forces placed the blocks and later returned to reposition them further inside the Strip. In total, 16 block positions were moved.

In al-Tuffah, images show that at least seven blocks were shifted between 27 November and 25 December, by an average of 295 metres. Under a US-brokered deal with Hamas, Israel agreed to withdraw troops behind the Yellow Line. Defence Minister Israel Katz warned in October that anyone crossing it would be “met with fire”.

BBC Verify also mapped 205 other markers. More than half were placed significantly deeper than the line shown on Israeli maps. Since Katz’s warning, Israeli troops have shot at people crossing the Yellow Line on at least 69 occasions, according to BBC Verify analysis of IDF statements.

On 19 December, an Israeli strike hit a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, killing five, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said. The site was just metres from a yellow block that had been moved.

Satellite data shows yellow line pushed deeper into Gaza

You can count on Israel to be dishonest.

The terrorist Israel are taking land slowly only killing an average of 5 people daily since the Oct ceasefire.

Just enough that doesn't reach the front pages.

One innocent woman shot in USA by ICE, one innocent woman shot by terrorist IDF in Gaza. What's the difference?

4 hours ago, JimCM said:

The terrorist Israel are taking land slowly only killing an average of 5 people daily since the Oct ceasefire.

Just enough that doesn't reach the front pages.

One innocent woman shot in USA by ICE, one innocent woman shot by terrorist IDF in Gaza. What's the difference?

The Woman in the US was a genuine innocent woman

The yellow line was intended to be implemented once. Hamas met the conditions of the. Gaza agreement. To date, Hamas has refused to comply. Therefore, there is technically no obligation on Israel to even respect the yellow border line. They are doing it as a goodwill gesture.

Not mentioned is that the barriers are in places where militants attempted to launch attacks. There were also natural obstacles to placing blocks so the Israelis put the markers where they could safely be placed. The repositioning is intended to allow an appropriate buffer place. Once the ISF arrives in Gaza, the border areas will come under its supervision, and Israel will withdraw to the red line. As Hamas is disarmed and Gaza has its promised delayed election, Israel will then withdraw to the buffer zone.

9 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

The yellow line was intended to be implemented once. Hamas met the conditions of the. Gaza agreement. To date, Hamas has refused to comply. Therefore, there is technically no obligation on Israel to even respect the yellow border line. They are doing it as a goodwill gesture.

Not mentioned is that the barriers are in places where militants attempted to launch attacks. There were also natural obstacles to placing blocks so the Israelis put the markers where they could safely be placed. The repositioning is intended to allow an appropriate buffer place. Once the ISF arrives in Gaza, the border areas will come under its supervision, and Israel will withdraw to the red line. As Hamas is disarmed and Gaza has its promised delayed election, Israel will then withdraw to the buffer zone.

Buffer zones created without mutual consent amount to de facto land appropriation. There is no credible mechanism ensuring that Israel will withdraw to the red line, let alone to a buffer zone, once external forces arrive or political conditions are met. Linking territorial withdrawal to the disarmament of Hamas and delayed elections imposes conditions that fall outside the original agreement and effectively allow indefinite occupation.   

  In practice, the repositioning of markers and barriers undermines trust, alters facts on the ground, and weakens any future negotiations. Rather than serving as a temporary security measure, it risks becoming a permanent redefinition of borders under the guise of conditional compliance.  

25 minutes ago, JimCM said:

Buffer zones created without mutual consent amount to de facto land appropriation. There is no credible mechanism ensuring that Israel will withdraw to the red line, let alone to a buffer zone, once external forces arrive or political conditions are met. Linking territorial withdrawal to the disarmament of Hamas and delayed elections imposes conditions that fall outside the original agreement and effectively allow indefinite occupation.   

  In practice, the repositioning of markers and barriers undermines trust, alters facts on the ground, and weakens any future negotiations. Rather than serving as a temporary security measure, it risks becoming a permanent redefinition of borders under the guise of conditional compliance.  

Hamas is not in any position to demand trust, considering that it was the party which launched the attacks that started the war. The credible mechanism that allows Israel to withdraw will be the presence of the ISF and the agreed upon disarmament of Hamas and the militias.The only party disagreeing with the disarmament is Hamas. It's supporters and allies have all agreed that this must be done. No one is going to participate in the Gaza rebuilding if Hamas and friends are still armed and able to extort money and material as they previously did. Now that Trump has invited Putin to his. Gaza board, Hamas will have many friends there to help it out; Turkey, Qatar and now Russia.

11 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Hamas is not in any position to demand trust, considering that it was the party which launched the attacks that started the war. The credible mechanism that allows Israel to withdraw will be the presence of the ISF and the agreed upon disarmament of Hamas and the militias.The only party disagreeing with the disarmament is Hamas. It's supporters and allies have all agreed that this must be done. No one is going to participate in the Gaza rebuilding if Hamas and friends are still armed and able to extort money and material as they previously did. Now that Trump has invited Putin to his. Gaza board, Hamas will have many friends there to help it out; Turkey, Qatar and now Russia.

The claim that “Hamas started this war” is historically false and analytically shallow. This war did not begin in October; it is the latest escalation in a conflict defined by prolonged occupation, blockade, and repeated large-scale military operations against a captive civilian population. You may condemn Hamas’s actions without pretending history began on a convenient date.

Trust is not something Hamas uniquely forfeited. Israel has repeatedly violated ceasefires, expanded buffer zones, altered borders, and imposed collective punishment, often during periods of relative calm. If “lack of trust” justified unilateral action, no agreement Israel has ever signed would still be binding — a position Israel itself rejects when applied to others.

The so-called “credible mechanism” for withdrawal is not credible at all. It places every trigger, benchmark, and verification mechanism under Israeli or allied control, allowing withdrawal to be delayed indefinitely. That is not a security arrangement; it is conditional occupation dressed up as diplomacy. A party cannot be both the occupying force and the sole judge of when occupation ends.

Disarmament demands are similarly disingenuous. Armed resistance movements do not disarm before political resolution; they disarm after one. Demanding total disarmament in advance, while maintaining siege, territorial control, and military dominance, is not a peace proposal - it is a surrender demand. History offers no serious example where this produced stability.

Claims of international consensus are exaggerated to the point of fiction. Many states oppose Hamas’s governance; that does not translate into support for open-ended Israeli control, border redefinition, or enforced demilitarisation without sovereignty. Reconstruction conditional on permanent subordination is not reconstruction - it is leverage.

Finally, invoking shifting global personalities,Trump, Putin, Turkey, Qatar, adds noise, not substance. External actors do not erase the central fact: you cannot redraw borders, impose buffer zones, or delay withdrawal indefinitely while insisting the other side alone bears responsibility for trust.

 

Ok, so according to you, Hamas did not attack on October 7 and 1200 people were not massacred. The rest of your Hamas political tract is not worth reading. I stopped after line 3. You are convincing no one and are only repeating bankrupt Hamas lies. No one is listening anymore.

6 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Ok, so according to you, Hamas did not attack on October 7 and 1200 people were not massacred.

Disinganuous post. The poster you're replying to wrote something completely different.
"This war did not begin in October; it is the latest escalation in a conflict defined by prolonged occupation, blockade, and repeated large-scale military operations against a captive civilian population. You may condemn Hamas’s actions without pretending history began on a convenient date."

10 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Disinganuous post. The poster you're replying to wrote something completely different.
"This war did not begin in October; it is the latest escalation in a conflict defined by prolonged occupation, blockade, and repeated large-scale military operations against a captive civilian population. You may condemn Hamas’s actions without pretending history began on a convenient date."

The excuses Hamas provided to justify its violation of the truce agreement and surprise attack on israel on October 7 have been proven untenable. Hamas has no standing in the Palestinian Authority territory and neither represents nor acts on the population's behalf. Hamas claims that the attack was meant to liberate the PA territory from "Israeli occupation." Sure. Murdering unarmed non combatants at a music festival was going to achieve that. No it was not.

Turns out that the Israeli monitoring of Gaza imports was justified. Hamas stole billions in aid$$ and diverted humanitarian aid to building missiles, rockets and fortified tunnels and bunkers. All the concrete, rebar, water and sewer pipes that should have been used for civil society were stolen for military purposes.

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The excuses Hamas provided to justify its violation of the truce agreement and surprise attack on israel on October 7 have been proven untenable. Hamas has no standing in the Palestinian Authority territory and neither represents nor acts on the population's behalf. Hamas claims that the attack was meant to liberate the PA territory from "Israeli occupation." Sure. Murdering unarmed non combatants at a music festival was going to achieve that. No it was not.

Turns out that the Israeli monitoring of Gaza imports was justified. Hamas stole billions in aid$$ and diverted humanitarian aid to building missiles, rockets and fortified tunnels and bunkers. All the concrete, rebar, water and sewer pipes that should have been used for civil society were stolen for military purposes.

Deflection from your disingenuous post.

11 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Deflection from your disingenuous post.

Don't need yet another discussion of when the war started .

Simple really: One said says the war started in October 2023, the other side says that Oct 2023 was part of the war that began in 1948 .

Why do you need to keep having the same discussion and repeating yourself ?

7 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Don't need yet another discussion of when the war started .

Simple really: One said says the war started in October 2023, the other side says that Oct 2023 was part of the war that began in 1948 .

Why do you need to keep having the same discussion and repeating yourself ?

Isn`t that obvious?

Classic blame shifting and history rewriting:

By claiming the war started on October 7 - I assume there is not a single soul on our planet, who hasn`t seen the horrible pictures and videos, as they were constantly repeated in the Western Media aka Israeli propaganda machinery - you can to make people believe, that:

1. Every massacre, every land theft, every atrocity committed by the IDF BEFORE October 7 was justified as it targeted evil people.

2. Every massacre, every land theft, every atrocity committed by the IDF BEFORE October 7 is not really worth mentioning as it rarely lasted longer than a few days and was nothing compared to October 7, so one could just as well forget about them.

3. Every massacre, every land theft, every atrocity committed by the IDF AFTER October 7 were appropriate responses and nothing else than pure self-defense against an evil power, which attacked them unprovoked.

4. Only Hamas is to blame for whatever the IDF is doing to the innocent people of Gaza because if Hamas would not have attacked the IDF would not have mass murdered those 20.000 children.

And the reason this historically wrong nonsense keeps being repeated, is because it is such a perfectly comfortable excuse for those Tens of Thousands who actively took part in the genocide, those Hundreds of Millions who supported it and those Billions who looked the other way.

Some lies are just too good to be untrue.

On 1/17/2026 at 10:15 AM, JimCM said:

The terrorist Israel are taking land slowly only killing an average of 5 people daily since the Oct ceasefire.

Just enough that doesn't reach the front pages.

One innocent woman shot in USA by ICE, one innocent woman shot by terrorist IDF in Gaza. What's the difference?

I`d rather say that one lead to another.

If we allow our society to apply such horrible double standards calling the mass murder of around 100.000 people, the complete destruction of their place and the intentional shooting of toddlers SELF-DEFENCE then we should not be surprised if an unarmed wife and mother of 3 is murdered just because she panicked and tried to flee as 3 huge armed men surrounded her and is now smeared by her own government calling her a domestic terrorist and part of a leftist network.

We reap what we sow.

Israel formally declares war against Hamas as it battles to push militants off its soil

Sun October 8, 2023

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/08/middleeast/israel-gaza-attack-hostages-response-intl-hnk

1 hour ago, Somjot said:

If we allow our society to apply such horrible double standards calling the mass murder of around 100.000 people

Don't forget that people can't work in Gaza, kids can't learn, most are injured. All kids whether shot or orphaned will grow up with PTSD. They will want revenge on the terrorist Israelis who killed their families.

They are still dying, Israel is holding back aid, and probably worse, if humanely possibly....

The world is looking away, the Jewish diaspora are blocking news, the Israeli of course won't let international journalists in, killing the remaining Gazan journalists.

To be frank, the people here supporting the terrorist Zionist genocide make me sick, and I don't often want to have any dialogue with them as they are insane.

No problem.

America has been supporting and funding this mess for the pase 50 years.

The problem here is not Israel. The problem is how america has been handling the issue and supporting it for so long and of course, Europe who is a humble servant of America, does not say a word.

10 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Ok, so according to you, Hamas did not attack on October 7 and 1200 people were not massacred. The rest of your Hamas political tract is not worth reading. I stopped after line 3. You are convincing no one and are only repeating bankrupt Hamas lies. No one is listening anymore.

Ok, what Hamas lies are in my post?

Everything I wrote is FACT.

Oh, I forgot, you don't read posts that you can't answer.

Man up and read it and stop burying your head in the sand.

6 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

No problem.

America has been supporting and funding this mess for the pase 50 years.

The problem here is not Israel. The problem is how america has been handling the issue and supporting it for so long and of course, Europe who is a humble servant of America, does not say a word.

Indeed, it's the very rich American Jews, who donate to the Israeli lobby. Even US/Israelis who get corrupt presidents in power, Miriam Adelson, a very evil Billionaire who gave Trumps campaign $400 million.

48 minutes ago, JimCM said:

Don't forget that people can't work in Gaza, kids can't learn, most are injured. All kids whether shot or orphaned will grow up with PTSD. They will want revenge on the terrorist Israelis who killed their families.

THAT is a huge problem. There is not a single person in Gaza, who has not lost one or more or even all family members.

I guess none of us can imagine the pain and agony one must suffer, when he loses his loved ones, maybe even has to watch them being shot, burned alive or shred into pieces, but if I would be one of those, who survived the onslaught, man, I am telling you, I would be coming for them. I would be spending the rest of my life seeking revenge.

48 minutes ago, JimCM said:

They are still dying, Israel is holding back aid, and probably worse, if humanely possibly....

The world is looking away, the Jewish diaspora are blocking news, the Israeli of course won't let international journalists in, killing the remaining Gazan journalists.

THAT is the most disturbing part of it.

Nobody can seriously expect from any country to go to war with Israel.

But if any other country would act like Israel, we would have sanctioned them into the stone age by now. We have done so for much lesser crimes.

Israel is like the bully on the schoolyard, who can do the worst things, beat up other students, steal their food or even sell drugs to them, without any consequences. Because he is related to the principal.

Rules and laws just don`t apply.

Most students hate him but don`t dare to speak up, a few are his friends but only to avoid being targeted.

And some people wonder why there is anti-semitic sentiment in the world.

48 minutes ago, JimCM said:

To be frank, the people here supporting the terrorist Zionist genocide make me sick, and I don't often want to have any dialogue with them as they are insane.

True, they somehow have completely lost their compassion.

Or more correctly, they have selective compassion.

But at least people here DO debate it.

Germans are completely different.

Start talking about Israel and just slightly criticize the killing of Gazans by the IDF and the reaction is always the same: immediate and total silence.

Seriously, I silenced whole rooms with 6 or 10 Germans in it, who were engaging in lively debates within seconds only by mentioning Hind Rajab.

That even works in German forums (actually it is "fora"), where I mentioned Gaza in a "recent news" thread.

Not a single answer.

I wrote a bit about a few atrocities and added that I have reliable proof for every statement.

Got only one comment:

"If you have reliable sources for all your points, then your position is clear for you.

Thanks for the conversation."

Only, we never had a conversation.

Being a German it feels weird, as everybody reacts exactly in the same way, when this topic comes up and I seem to be the only person, who does not know the reason.

Someone seems to have forgotten to send me the memo.

1 hour ago, JimCM said:

Don't forget that people can't work in Gaza, kids can't learn, most are injured. All kids whether shot or orphaned will grow up with PTSD. They will want revenge on the terrorist Israelis who killed their families.

They are still dying, Israel is holding back aid, and probably worse, if humanely possibly....

The world is looking away, the Jewish diaspora are blocking news, the Israeli of course won't let international journalists in, killing the remaining Gazan journalists.

To be frank, the people here supporting the terrorist Zionist genocide make me sick, and I don't often want to have any dialogue with them as they are insane.

How long until you explode ? :)