There are more than 20 deaths from crossing it

He Israeli Army will signal the “yellow line” in Gazathe frontera invisible to which its soldiers retreated based on the commitments included in the first phase of the peace agreement for the Strip. The decision is made a week after the ceasefire came into force and after Tel Aviv troops have killed more than twenty Gazans supposedly for crossing it.

This has been stated by the Minister of Defense, Israel Katzdetailing that this limit will be marked “with special continuous markings to clearly determine where the line of political and security separation passes”.

The minister reiterated that marking the imaginary line seeks to “warn Hamas terrorists and Gaza residents that any violation or attempt to cross the line will be met with fire.”

In his message, Katz also shared a low-resolution image of what appears to be a concrete block protruding from a yellow signalpresumably the object that the Army will use to demarcate the line.

The Defense Minister’s announcement comes when the ceasefire in Gaza is one week old, during which the Israel Defense Forces have killed more than 20 Gazans who crossed this border into areas still under Israeli control. The attacks have been carried out mainly with drones.

Gaza health authorities have indicated on numerous occasions that the deceased were people trying to return to their homes taking advantage of the truce, even though they were in the area under Israeli control. But when the yellow line is crossed, the IDF’s orders are to open fire.

Several Gaza City residents have explained to the agency Efe what They don’t know where the yellow line was exactly.and that their maneuvers are based on the information they receive from their neighbors.

“We only move through the areas where we live. If I want to know if a place is dangerous, I ask people: has anyone been there in the last few hours? The situation is dangerous. “It is the neighbors who inform us of what is really happening,” Mohamed Badaui, a resident of the Zeitún neighborhood of the capital, explained to the aforementioned agency.

The agreement signed by Hamas and Israel establishes that the truce covers the entire Gaza Strip and that the Israeli Army must withdraw to the “yellow line”, but that does not demarcate a territory where the truce does not apply, although the IDF has invoked self-defense and threats to its troops to shoot at Palestinians in the border areas.

Between this line and the border between Gaza and Israel there are about 1.5 kilometers in its narrowest area and about 6.5 in its widest area (in the widest area the Palestinian enclave is about 12 kilometers wide). Despite having retreated to this line, Israel maintains more than 50% of the territory in Gaza under its control.