Above photo: Israeli army/Reuters.
Israeli troops have built 13 new outposts since the ceasefire.
While continuing to destroy civilian infrastructure to make room for new military sites.
The Israeli military is preparing to establish a permanent presence inside the Gaza Strip, new satellite imagery released by Forensic Architecture has confirmed.
According to Forensic Architecture’s research, Israel is consolidating control over 50 percent of the strip – continuously demolishing civilian infrastructure to make room for new outposts.
Since the ceasefire, the Israeli army has built at least 13 new outposts – mainly east of the so-called “Yellow Line,” the perimeter to which Tel Aviv withdrew its forces as part of the agreement.
Reports and statements by resistance officials had recently confirmed that Israeli forces pushed beyond the Yellow Line during the ceasefire in a bid to seize additional territory in violation of the agreement.
Forensic Architecture has revealed several changes along Yellow Line: “An increase in the number of outposts in locations for strategic occupation, the expansion of outposts, and the development of outpost infrastructure.”
“Within Gaza, Israel is currently maintaining 48 military outposts east of the ‘yellow line’. The outposts are connected to a network of roads which have been created, expanded or appropriated by the Israeli military. In turn, these link to Israeli bases, roads, and settlements outside of Gaza,” the research group said.
The demolition of buildings in Gaza has not stopped. Since the truce, at least 1,500 buildings have been destroyed, satellite imagery showed last month.
In the northern city of Jabalia, a densely populated tent area was destroyed and replaced by a new road and military outpost, according to Forensic Architecture’s research.
Israel has also continued the construction of a new road in Khan Yunis in the south, connecting the Magen Oz corridor (built by the Israeli army in the summer of this year) to other Israeli-controlled areas in Gaza.
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of the Jadaliyya outlet and a former UN official who worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group, told Drop Site News that Israel is “doing what it always does, and what it historically has done best: establish ‘facts on the ground,’ incrementally rather than spectacularly, and make them permanent once those with influence to force it to reverse course either lose interest, decide that the cost of confronting Israel is not worth the price, or come out in open support of Israeli violations.”
“Augmenting multiple Israeli statements about extending its borders with buffer zones to the north, east, and south, this is indisputably an Israeli campaign to partition the Gaza Strip and thereby promote its long-term objective of moving the Palestinian population elsewhere. At the same time, Israeli success is not a foregone conclusion. If it was, the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip would have been ethnically cleansed years if not decades ago,” he added.
Israel has carried out over 700 violations of the Gaza ceasefire, killing nearly 400 in just two months.
These developments come as Israel continues to expand its military occupation in Syria following the fall of the former government in December 2024, and its occupation in southern Lebanon.
Analysts told the New York Times (NYT) earlier this year that Tel Aviv’s wide network of new outposts across Syria and Lebanon appear to be permanent.
