Israel accused of truce violation by altering Gaza ´Yellow Line´

The Hamas-run media office on Thursday accused the Israeli military of a "blatant violation" of the cease-fire agreement, claiming Israel expanded the Yellow Line boundary that restricts its operations east of Gaza City, reported Xinhua.

In a statement, the Hamas office alleged the Israeli army had committed a "new act of aggression" by pushing into eastern Gaza City and moving the yellow markers.

The army extended the Yellow Line by 300 meters into the Al-Shaaf, Al-Nazzaz, and Baghdad neighborhoods, the statement claimed, adding that this move resulted in the encirclement of dozens of families who were unable to leave after tanks unexpectedly entered the area.

The office noted that the fate of many of these families remains unknown amid ongoing shelling in the vicinity.

The Yellow Line serves as the Israeli military's redeployment boundary under the initial phase of the cease-fire deal. Maps indicate the boundary extends between 1.5 and 6.5 kilometers inside Gaza from the eastern border, covering approximately 47 percent of the enclave. This line effectively splits Gaza into an eastern zone under Israeli military oversight and a western zone where Palestinians have fewer restrictions on movement.

The Hamas office appealed to the agreement's mediators and guarantors to intervene and force Israel to comply with the ceasefire terms.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based Health authorities said in its daily report that 33 people were killed and 88 wounded in the past 24 hours.

The authorities reported that 312 people have been killed and 760 others injured since the ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct. 10, while 572 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble during the same period, bringing the death toll of the war in Gaza to 69,546.

Also on Thursday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said that four Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were injured during a large-scale military operation in Nablus in the northern West Bank.

The Israeli army said in a statement that a soldier was moderately wounded in a shooting incident in Nablus, adding that the army "conducted a large-scale operation in several villages deep within Nablus, with the aim of finding weapons and carrying out arrests."

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its medical teams had transported four people with gunshot wounds to Rafidia hospital from various neighborhoods in Nablus.