An Aid Group Says Gaza's 'Yellow Line' Is Still Creeping West

The Danish Refugee Council alleges that Israel is pursuing a policy of protracted displacement in Gaza. The aid organisation says the so-called Yellow Line is moving west toward the coast, preventing many people from returning home, as Deutsche Welle reports. Source text: the council calls it a policy of protracted displacement — the phrase is its own, and so is the characterisation behind it. The claim worth pausing on is the second one: not that people have been displaced by fighting, but that a demarcation line on the ground keeps moving and keeps them from going back. A line that shifts is a different kind of obstacle from rubble or a closed road, because what changes is who is allowed to return where, not merely what has been destroyed.