{"id":56488,"date":"2025-12-08T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israeli-army-chief-claims-yellow-line-new-border-inside-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:55:11","slug":"israeli-army-chief-claims-yellow-line-new-border-inside-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israeli-army-chief-claims-yellow-line-new-border-inside-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army chief claims &#8216;yellow line&#8217; new border inside Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;yellow line&#8221; marks the zone from which Israeli troops have not withdrawn in the Palestinian enclave, as part of the ceasefire arrangements that took effect on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8216;yellow line&#8217; is a new borderline, serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity,&#8221; Zamir said during a visit to Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya in Gaza, where he met division commanders.<\/p>\n<p>He said the military has assumed &#8220;operational control over extensive parts of the Gaza Strip,&#8221; adding that Israeli forces &#8220;will remain&#8221; in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>Zamir added the army &#8220;will not allow Hamas to reestablish itself&#8221; and is preparing for &#8220;surprise attack scenarios,&#8221; which he described as a cornerstone of the military&#8217;s upcoming multi-year plan.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the mission will not be complete until the last deceased hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, a police officer, is brought home. Hamas has released all 20 remaining living hostages and the bodies of 27 deceased hostages, except Gvili.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli troops have shot and killed dozens of Palestinians, saying they were suspects who crossed the &#8220;yellow line.&#8221; More than 370 people have been killed by Israeli fire since Oct. 11, bringing the Palestinian death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023 to 70,360, according to figures from Gaza&#8217;s health authorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98849\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg\" alt=\"This photo released by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sept. 16, 2025 shows Israel&#039;s military chief Eyal Zamir (2nd R) in the Gaza Strip.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir said on Sunday that the &#8220;yellow line&#8221; demarcation is the &#8220;new borderline&#8221; inside the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000098850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000098850,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025120816089b4b482542e6992474491a2b6723_ccrbeee000008_20251208_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}