‘Yellow line’ won’t become permanent in Gaza: Israeli official
Ron Dermer, Israel’s strategic affairs minister, said at the Jewish Coalition in the Democratic Party in Las Vegas that the “yellow line” ceasefire demarcation will not become “a permanent separation line”.
Israel has established the “buffer zone” inside Gaza under the truce agreement with Hamas.
Dermer said the truce requires Hamas to disarm and if it doesn’t, “Israel is the one that will act and then the yellow line will shrink."
“If non-Israeli forces deal with it then the yellow line will expand,” he added.
So Israel is already announcing they'll take more territory as Hamas has already said disarming is a red line. Besides that, chance of finding the remaining 11 (9 Israeli) captive bodies is slim. The last 2 found turned out not to be captives. Phase 2 will not even start as long as Israel keeps hampering the search for bodies.
Trump wants his deals with the Arab states to go through though, he will have to pressure Netanyahu a lot more to keep up the 'peace' plan illusion.
Gaza ceasefire’s second phase rests on US: Analyst
Ceasefire violations in the Gaza Strip are one-sided because Hamas, unlike Israel, “does not have the luxury to violate anything”, says Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor in Critical Security Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
“They have already handed back the captives, the alive ones, and they are trying to recover the bodies of the [dead],” Seloom told Al Jazeera. The only hope for moving onto the second phase of the ceasefire rests on the US, he said.
“If the US wants to enforce this, we will be moving to phase two. If the US chooses to go along with Netanyahu, then we will be unfortunately seeing more attacks,” added Seloom.
Heavy machinery allowed to find Israeli bodies, but not to clear debris
The entry of heavy machinery and equipment such as bulldozers and trucks is being limited to the search and recovery of Israeli bodies inside the Gaza Strip. They have little authority to operate elsewhere. The process is designed for that purpose.
We’re still seeing rubble-filled roads everywhere, blocked by the debris from major buildings destroyed over the last two years. Areas across the Gaza Strip remain inaccessible, let alone public services to provide assistance to displaced families.
Palestinians feel it is about time they were treated equally – that the same attention and concern for the deceased Israeli captives is given to them.
