Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israeli forces will not retreat “one millimeter” from the so-called “Yellow Line” in Gaza until Hamas is disarmed, even as the second phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war gets underway.
The "Yellow Line” refers to the line to which Israeli forces withdrew in eastern Gaza during the first phase of Trump’s plan to end the war.
Under the plan’s second phase, which began last month, Israel is expected to withdraw gradually from that line.
"We will never allow Hamas to remain, not with weapons and not with tunnels. The slogan is simple: until the last tunnel,” Katz said at a conference organized by the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
"We will not move from the Yellow Line by one millimeter until Hamas is disarmed, from weapons, from tunnels and from other things,” he claimed.
