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IDF Troops Ordered to Halt Yellow Line Advance in Gaza and Document Hamas Violations

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of Israeli troops holding a line in the Gaza Strip: a soldier in a helmet, backpack and tan fatigues stands at the left of the frame with a rifle held across his chest, looking out over an open expanse of sand, while a second soldier fills the right foreground seen from behind, his helmet, radio headset and loaded plate carrier drawn in close detail as he faces the same horizon; between them a battle tank sits on a low earthen ridge in the middle distance

Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip have been officially instructed not to push the Yellow Line further west, the first such order after months of steady expansion. Soldiers were separately directed to document every Hamas violation of the ceasefire agreement, using their own phones where necessary. The instruction followed a four hour meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US envoy Jared Kushner and Nickolay Mladenov of the Board of Peace for Gaza, held amid American pressure to open the second phase of President Donald Trump's plan. The plan's original line last September left Israel holding slightly more than half of the Strip; the IDF had since reached almost two thirds.

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