[Salon] Death Zone: Israel implementing 'shoot on sight' policy at Gaza 'Yellow Line'

FM: John Whitbeck

In the wake of Israel's massacre of a Palestinian family of 11 (including seven children and three women) by firing a tank shell at their car when they crossed Israel's unmarked "Yellow Line" in the hope of returning to their home (www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/18/israel-kills-11-palestinian-family-members-in-gazas-deadliest-truce-breach), Israeli "Defense" Minister Israel Katz has, as reported in the article at the link transmitted below, instructed Israeli forces to physically demarcate the "Yellow Line" and to kill anyone who crosses it.

https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-implementing-shoot-sight-policy-gaza-yellow-line

This is ominous. It suggest that, even if the "ceasefire" holds, the Israeli government plans to maintain indefinitely its current military occupation of 53% of the territory of the Gaza Strip, territory which includes the great majority of Gaza's agricultural land and which has already been effectively ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.

Furthermore, as demonstrated by Israel's continuing presence in Areas "B" and "C" of the West Bank, from which, in accordance with the "Oslo" accords, it should have started its gradual withdrawal a quarter-century ago, "indefinite" tends to mean "permanent" whenever and wherever Israeli land-grabs are concerned.

Formal annexations are neither necessary nor desirable, since they could provoke Western states which have used the "temporary" excuse to justify the actual support for Israel's illegal occupation of the State of Palestine to finally take constructive actions to end it.

From a Zionist perspective, the optimal situation is effectively permanent occupation and control of all the territory of the State of Palestine without a formal declaration of annexation.

The "Trump peace plan" would, unsurprisingly, permit this.