The ceasefire agreement and start of the First phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip just came into effect. As agreed, this Friday at 12 noon (11:00 in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands) the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gazan cities begins.
“The ceasefire agreement came into effect at 12:00 p.m.,” said the Arabic spokesman for the Israeli Army, Avichai Adrai, in a message on his account on the social network X, where he stressed that The troops of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are now “on the new lines of deployment operational, based on the ceasefire agreement and return of the kidnapped people.
Avichai himself has stressed that “the troops will remain deployed in specific areas of the Gaza Strip” and has called on the population to “not approach them until further notice.” “Getting close to them poses a danger,” he warned, in a message in which he said that “seeks to avoid friction and misunderstandings”.
“Movement is allowed from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip through Al Rashid Highway and Saladin Street,” he specified, the two main routes in the Strip, which will allow the return of thousands of displaced people to the south due to the recent large-scale offensive against Gaza City (north).
However, he stressed that “approaching the areas of Beit Hanun, Beit Lahia and Sujaia, as well as other areas where forces are stationed, is extremely dangerous”, before adding that in the case of southern Gaza it is also “very dangerous” to approach the Rafah crossing, the Philadelphia corridor and “all areas of concentration of forces in Khan Yunis”.
“Our Palestinian people have emerged from a war of extermination, siege, hunger and mass destruction,” said the press office of the Gaza authorities, which stressed that “This phase is faced with a spirit of national and humanitarian responsibility” to be able to meet the enormous needs of the population of the enclave, whose “legendary patience and resilience” he has praised after two years of Israel’s offensive.
