Afrasianet - Dr. Hani Al-Akkad - "The Yellow Line" is a new term in the lives of Gazans that was not before the war or even during it, and it was not even on maps, an Israeli invention for military purposes that was drawn on the map, it did not exist on the ground, and Israel was able to impose it in the agreement of the Trump plan to make it the first line of withdrawal from the depth of Palestinian cities, although it divides the Gaza Strip into two halves, the first half west of the Yellow Line and the other half east of the Yellow Line laterally.
For Palestinians, it is the death line, and those who cross it may be bombed by Israeli drones, shot dead by drones, or torn to pieces by an Israeli tank shell. The yellow line deprived more than a million citizens of returning to their neighborhoods, inspecting their homes, and finding out whether their houses are still standing or were demolished by the occupation bulldozers, and deprived the Palestinian citizen from going to harvest the olive crop, which may have ended, and trying to save what can be saved from trees that were not destroyed and swept away by the occupation tanks.
The people in the Gaza Strip live in the hope that this line will end and disappear once the second step of President Trump's plan to stop the war on Gaza is implemented, which Israel no longer wants to walk one foot in after it returned its hostages without American payment and follow-up and control from the mediators, and this has become clear after Israel's delay in moving from the first phase to the second phase after Hamas implemented its commitments during the first phase and Israel invokes a number of The arguments that Hamas did not abide by its pledges to hand over the entire bodies of the Israeli prisoners, even though Israel knows the most important obstacles behind this, and prevented specialized technical teams from Turkey from coming through the Rafah crossing to Gaza with their light and heavy technological equipment to contribute to the search for the bodies of the Israelis with the search teams of the Hamas movement, but Israel did not give a reason for this, but the truth is that Israel fears that these teams will contribute to helping the Palestinian Civil Defense teams in Gaza in searching for the Thousands of people are missing under the thousands or even millions of tons of rubble of houses and buildings that the occupation blew up with its warplanes.
The United States of America is aware that Israel does not want to advance the agreement and that Netanyahu is looking for explosives for him, according to statements by senior American officials that Netanyahu may blow up the agreement, so Trump sent Mr. Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner and deputy (J.D. Vance) to Tel Aviv, who held several meetings with Netanyahu and his Minister of Strategic Affairs (Ron Dermer), where the New York Times quoted American officials as saying that there is concern within President Trump's administration about the possibility of Netanyahu withdrawing from the deal.
The Gaza Agreement is unilateral, so the current strategy in the Trump administration focuses on not resuming the war, and the newspaper added that (Jared Kushner and Whitkoff) read the current situation with sensitivity, noting that the Gaza agreement is still at risk of collapse at any moment.
In fact, Trump's envoys were able to save the ceasefire agreement from collapse after Israel bombed civilian areas inside the Gaza Strip in the central area, Khan Younis and Gaza City, killing more than 30 martyrs in one night, and Netanyahu announced at the time that he would close the crossings to aid coming to Gaza.
The United States mobilized its envoys who contacted Netanyahu directly and informed him of the White House's message that what he was doing was a flagrant violation of the agreement, and President Trump himself is requesting the opening of all crossings for the movement of aid to Gaza, including the Rafah crossing, as part of the first phase of the agreement.
It was only one hour until a statement was issued by Netanyahu's office retracting the closure of the crossings to the movement of aid, and it was only hours, and the office of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office announced once again that Israel will return to adhere to and abide by the ceasefire in Gaza On the other side, and the observer of Israel's behavior Trump confirmed that the ceasefire is still in effect in the Gaza Strip and that both Hamas and Israel are not interested in its collapse and that his envoys will work to stabilize this and move to discuss the implementation of The terms of the second phase of the agreement with Israeli officials.
It seems that Trump's envoys have succeeded in dismantling Netanyahu's intransigence and convincing him of Trump's vision and desire to end the war, preserve his plan and work to implement its provisions, and the proof of this success is that Israel has returned and opened the crossings and committed to moving to the second phase, and there is news that Tel Aviv and Washington have started activating a joint headquarters in the settlement (Kiryat Gat) to coordinate the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and follow up on the arrangements for the day after the war.
According to the Hebrew media, the headquarters includes hundreds of Israeli and American officers and soldiers who are working on developing mechanisms on the ground to deal with any possible breach of the truce or any unusual movements inside the Strip, and the Hebrew newspapers announced that representatives from other countries such as Egypt, the UAE, Qatar and Turkey may join the headquarters in the near future and that Netanyahu will appoint the Israeli-American businessman (Michael Eisenberg) as his personal representative at the American headquarters in charge of supervising the implementation of the agreement on ending the war on Gaza. General (Dolph) was accompanied by the representative of the Israeli army and security services.
Vice President Trump (J.Y. Vance) has a big task in Tel Aviv, which is to supervise Israel's start of implementing the terms of the second phase, the most important of which is Israel's withdrawal from the yellow line to the buffer zone within the borders of the Gaza Strip, as agreed in the Sharm el-Sheikh negotiations without linking it to the issue of disarming Hamas, and his mission requires Israel to show great flexibility in the issue of the deployment of the stabilization force in the Gaza Strip and the official start of the work of the technocratic government, which is a step that will achieve permanent stability, and then we can We say that Gaza has started the first stages of recovery because the government's naming and taking over its work in the Gaza Strip means that large technical and professional work committees in partnership with many Arab countries will start implementing early recovery plans in the Strip, and thus preparing for the reconstruction of the Strip not from Rafah as planned by the Trump administration, but for all areas of the Strip.
The delay in the implementation of the provisions of the second phase and the lack of a quick transition to stabilization of the scene in the Gaza Strip by implementing all the provisions of the second phase, especially Israel's withdrawal beyond the yellow line, the ceasefire agreement will remain fragile and may collapse again because everyone is aware that the shooting incidents will not stop, especially from the Israeli side, along the yellow line until after this line, and I fear that the yellow line will then become a barricade in the way of the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and an obstacle.
This may bring us back to square one, which means blowing up the agreement, which may not last long by doing so, because the Palestinians will not accept in any way to deprive them of their return to their lands and places of residence that were destroyed by the occupation after the Yellow Line, and I am afraid that the occupation army will consider it a central truce line from which it wants to launch ground military operations in the other half of the Gaza Strip, and this is the worst that can be proven on the ground. The worst-case scenario may be waiting for an agreement to end the war on Gaza.
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