Israeli Forces Expand Gaza “Yellow Line,” Drop Incendiary Munitions Near Beit Lahiya

Israeli ministers and broadcasters described an expanding colonial project in Gaza and the West Bank, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announcing the “cancellation” of the Hebron Accords and Israeli broadcasters reporting on the government cabinet’s intended “quiet annexation” of Gaza.

“About a dozen private Christian schools in East Jerusalem have suspended classes after an Israeli decision to restrict the days on which work permits are issued to teachers living in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said on January 13”

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In Gaza, Smotrich said the Settlement Administration he heads had “completed plans” for three settlements in the north of the Strip and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve them, while Israeli forces pushed cement markers further west along the so-called “Yellow Line.”

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The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that around midnight on June 23, near Beit Lahiya, a quadcopter dropped incendiary munitions that set three displacement tents ablaze, and forces placed a yellow cement block near the families’ shelters as the line expanded.

OCHA now assesses 65 percent of Gaza as “access-restricted,” and the same report described how the UN human rights office has recorded the killing of nearly 200 Palestinians since October along the “Yellow Line.”

In the West Bank, Israeli forces brought heavy machinery into the Ibrahimi Mosque and began installing steel beams over its open courtyard, while Israeli authorities blocked the Muslim call to prayer there for a week and a half, according to the mosque’s director and Israeli authorities’ actions described in the report.

On June 23, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry found that Israeli forces had deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children—at least 20,179 between October 2023 and October 2025, roughly 30 percent of all of those killed—and said the deliberate killing of children was a key element establishing genocidal intent.

Israel rejected the report as a “libelous sham,” while the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reported that Israeli forces had killed 241 Palestinian children and teenagers in the occupied West Bank since October 2023.

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On June 29, in el-Bireh adjacent to Ramallah, 15-year-old Ahmad Jawad Jaber was shot in the head and chest during an Israeli raid and died on the way to hospital, and Ramallah governor Laila Ghannam called it “a clear-cut execution in broad daylight.”

In Gaza, medical sources and Wafa described deaths including 13-year-old Eileen al-Farra from shrapnel wounds, eight-year-old Malik Abu Shaweesh killed near Deir el-Balah, and an Israeli strike on a tent in al-Mawasi that killed Diana Abu Daraz, 23, and her infant daughter Suwar.

Separately, the AP report described Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza on Monday that killed at least eight people including two children, including a 23-year-old mother and her one-year-old daughter west of Khan Younis after a strike hit a tent in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood.

In the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Israeli army closed the headquarters of the Attadamun Charitable Society, claiming it “supports terrorism,” after storming the city at dawn with military vehicles and trucks and raiding the charity’s headquarters.

“The Israeli occupation forces escalated their attacks in the West Bank today, Tuesday, by storming the Qalandia Institute affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and closing its entrances, and by closing a charitable association in Nablus and demolishing a school stadium in Beitir, west of Bethlehem, as part of a series of measures affecting educational and charitable institutions”

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Nablus Gov. Ghassan Daghlas told Anadolu after inspecting the headquarters that “the [Israeli] occupation will fail in its policy of targeting charitable institutions that provide services to the poor and orphans,” and he said Attadamun’s closure would not stop aid from being delivered to residents.

The TRT World report said Israeli forces posted a military order at the entrance stating the association was being shut down on the grounds of “supporting terrorism,” and it said the forces closed the entrance to the building and confiscated office equipment and aid designated for poor families.

A separate account in Palestine Chronicle said the closure was for one year after accusing the charity of “supporting terrorism,” and it reported that Quds News Network said Israeli forces welded shut the entrances to the entire commercial building housing the charity’s offices.

The same TRT World report cited official figures saying that since October 8 2023 attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank have killed at least 1,173 Palestinians, injured 12,666 and led to the arrest of about 23,000, while Palestinians warn the measures are paving the way for Israel to formally annex the West Bank.