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'Two weeks into the ceasefire, more than 20 Palestinians are still being killed on average each day, many of them close to the yellow line. Consequently, very few of the displaced are returning to the area under Israeli control.
The political hurdles remain immense to moving to a second phase of the ceasefire, which would involve Hamas being disarmed and replaced by an multinational stabilisation force, and an IDF withdrawal from the yellow line to positions closer to the Gaza border. The right wing of the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition is fiercely opposed to further withdrawal, and the internationalisation of control over Gaza.
In the impasse, the yellow line continues to take on a more permanent form, and is increasingly referred to in Israeli media as a “new border”.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
"With the release of the living hostages having taken the internal pressure off Netanyahu to some extent, it is difficult in my view to see the IDF under him giving up the roughly 50% of Gaza it currently occupies, which was in fact what it occupied before the recent advances into Gaza City."
And it was interesting to see on Sky News yesterday a report that Israel is supporting various armed groups in opposition to Hamas.
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