After Netanyahu-Kushner meeting: IDF instructed not to push the yellow line in Gaza westward

The IDF has officially instructed its troops in Gaza not to extend the yellow line westward and to document every violation by Hamas, including through personal phones. The directive came after a roughly four-hour meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Trump's envoy Kushner and Peace Council CEO Mladenov, amid American pressure to implement phase two of the Trump plan. The original yellow line left Israel with just over half of the Strip, but the IDF pushed it westward and gained control of nearly two-thirds.

The IDF has officially instructed its troops in Gaza not to extend the yellow line westward, as reported this evening in the Kan News broadcast. In addition, soldiers were instructed to document every violation by Hamas, and if necessary, use their personal phones for this purpose. The directive came after earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US President Donald Trump's envoy, Jared Kushner, and with the CEO of the Peace Council for Gaza, Nikolai Mladenov. The meeting, which took place amid growing American pressure on Israel to move toward implementing phase two of the Trump plan in the Strip, lasted about four hours, after which Mladenov and Kushner met with President Isaac Herzog. The original yellow line, which was agreed upon in the 20-point plan presented by Trump last September, left Israel with just over half of the Strip's territory. However, in recent months, the IDF has pushed it further and further westward and has gained de facto control of nearly two-thirds of the Strip's territory, and now for the first time, the directive has come to the forces to stop.