“Determine clearly.” This is the pillar of the measure that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have taken in response to the dozen Palestinians shot dead since the beginning of , for having crossed into the buffer zone in which Israeli troops remain in the . The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced this Friday that that yellow line drawn on a map, invisible in practice on the ground, is being physically delimited on it. That is, they are ‘painting’ or marking it.
“In accordance with my instructions, the IDF began marking the yellow line along which it was drawn,” Katz said this morning in a post on his official Twitter account, adding that it is already being done “covering more than 50% of the Gaza Strip, with special continuous markings.” This message accompanies a photograph of an illustration of stone pivots with a yellow sign above them.
The top military official of the Israeli Executive has not hidden that the objective is to “clearly determine where the line of political and security separation along which it was drawn passes,” reiterating the . Shoot. Katz wanted to “warn Hamas terrorists and Gaza residents against any violation or attempt to cross the line.”
More than twenty Palestinians dead after the truce
In this sense, the Gazan authorities have reported a total of those that have been registered after October 11. That is, the entry into force of the truce. However, Israel defends that the agreement allows them to open fire on those who cross the delimited area. An area that would be moved in subsequent phases of the agreed process. The Israeli authorities have justified these deaths by pointing out that they shot “suspects” who had crossed that boundary.
