Al Jazeera Finds 40 IDF Outposts In Gaza After October 2025 Ceasefire

Satellite imagery analyzed by Al Jazeera’s Open Source Unit identified 40 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) outposts inside the Gaza Strip, with another base under construction, all built after the October 2025 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect.

“Israel was supposed to fully withdraw its troops from Gaza as part of the ceasefire signed in October”

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Al Jazeera reported that the outposts are connected by “a network of earthen berms, trenches, and internal military roads,” tightly surrounding Palestinian population centres from multiple directions and restricting civilians’ ability to move or access their lands.

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The analysis also says Israel is building “dozens of heavily fortified permanent military bases around the entire inner perimeter of the coastal strip,” a move critics fear is preparation for ethnic cleansing and possible Israeli resettlement.

Al Jazeera’s report frames the construction as a violation of the United States-brokered October 2025 ceasefire agreement, which it says was based on a 21-point peace plan proposed by President Donald Trump and demanded a phased Israeli withdrawal.

Palestinian political analyst Abdullah Aqrabawi said, “the idea of occupation, control, and pushing borders forward has become the core of the Israeli security doctrine.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a youth military academy audience that “we are now in 60% of the Gaza Strip, more or less,” and after chants of “100%! 100%!,” he replied, “Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.”

Al Jazeera’s Open Source Unit analysis says Israeli forces have pulled back to the “Yellow Line,” described as buffer and military zones comprising some 60 percent of the enclave’s territory.

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In the same Al Jazeera report, Netanyahu is quoted saying, “We are currently squeezing Hamas; we now control 60 percent of the territory,” while addressing a crowd member who shouted for complete annexation.

The France 24 Observers desk described the Morag corridor in southern Gaza as a “security corridor” announced by Netanyahu on April 2, 2025, and said that by May 3 about ten kilometers of road had been laid from the Israeli border toward the Mediterranean Sea.

France 24 Observers quoted a journalist in a report by the conservative Israeli TV channel C14 saying, “Divide the territory.”

Al Jazeera’s report says that since the war began in October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed nearly 73,000 Palestinians and injured more than 172,919, with women and children making up most of the casualties.

“(CNN) -- When Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2, two days after Israel and the United States announced war on Iran, the Israeli operation aimed at destroying the group quickly morphed into a mission to level vast swaths of southern Lebanon on the ground”

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The France 24 Observers desk reported that the Morag corridor’s construction was accompanied by “hundreds of buildings, both greenhouses and houses,” destroyed in just one month along the axis between Rafah and Khan Younis.

In Lebanon, CNN said that after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2, Israeli ground operations began to take shape similar to what was seen in Gaza, with bulldozers leveling buildings and demolitions razing entire villages to the ground.

CNN reported that in the first ten days of the Israeli offensive in March, it counted 523 buildings destroyed in 22 towns, and said the destruction included mosques, pharmacies, cafes, and car repair shops.

Amnesty International said on May 14, 2026 that Israel’s deliberate destruction of civilian housing in Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria since December 2024 “must be the subject of a war crimes investigation,” linking the pattern to what it said it had observed in Gaza and Lebanon.