Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”
For us here in Gaza, this “ceasefire” is a fiction. The bombing has continued as Israel moves its Yellow Line.
By Dalia Abu Ramadan , TruthoutPublishedDecember 4, 2025
We heard the story of Haj Abu Muhammad Mushtaha, who was forced to flee with 20 members of his family as the fire grew too heavy to endure. When he tried to return home that evening, he was shocked to find that the occupation had placed concrete blocks more than 500 meters west of the Yellow Line — the same line established in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel on October 10. It was an additional expansion of the army’s presence across the ruined neighborhood, blocking him entirely from reaching his home.
And he was not the only one. Dozens of families in Al-Shujaiya have been unable to return to their homes — not before the ceasefire, not after the Yellow Line was drawn, and not now after Israel has expanded it even further. A friend of ours from the Farwana family had been displaced since the earliest days of the war, and to this day he has not only been unable to return, he has been unable even to see his destroyed home.
So, the question stands: What is the occupation trying to achieve by expanding its borders under the guise of a “ceasefire”?
What breaks me most is that no one in this world seems to care.
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