GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: When Ibrahim Farahat awoke to discover a large yellow concrete block on his doorstep in Gaza City, he suddenly found himself right on the perilous demarcation line marking the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Several residents of the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, told AFP that they had found such blocks around their homes — which they believed had been placed by Israeli forces overnight between Thursday and Friday.
“They placed the yellow block in front of our house. It was previously near the Al-Aqsa pharmacy,” about a kilometer away (less than a mile), Farahat told AFP.
“Things were fine — it was far from us,” he added.
“Now gunfire is reaching our house.”
