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The Yellow Line is a deadline. The markers are more than two football fields apart. You need two markers for a line; one is only a point. A FRANCE 24 journalist said:

“One of the things we saw very clearly today is that it is close to impossible to see where it is. Close to 200 people have been killed in the vicinity of this line. 

“The army can’t 100 percent define where it is. I am certain the Gazan civilians and even armed militias can’t really know where it is. So, this [is a] matter of Gazans who keep getting killed for crossing an invisible line.”

Jan 3-9, 2025: Gaza Film “From Ground Zero” at AMC Fitchburg & Baraboo

Journalist Wadeaa_.9 on Instagram, September 21, 2024

Palestinians, including children, living in the Nuseirat refugee camp wait with empty pots to receive food distributed by an aid organization as they are unable to meet many vital needs, including basic food supplies, in Gaza City, Gaza on November 08, 2024. (Photo by Moiz Salhi, Anadolu via Getty Images)
Israeli Sniper Firing on Protesters, Jeff Danziger, 2011
Inside Israel’s war,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 10 March 2024 (Drone video: IR Productions)
Stories of people from Gaza
Welcome to Hella B’Tselem report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy.

Six Israeli Assaults on Gaza in 16 years, Visualizing Palestine, November 29, 2023

“When there are no [other] IDF forces [in the area] … the shooting is very unrestricted, like crazy. And not just small arms: machine guns, tanks, and mortars.” ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s free-for-all violence in Gaza

Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, Dec 27, 2023

A petition demands that Amazon and Google cut ties with the occupation, October 14, 2021boycott4pal.net
Tenney Park, Madison Palestine olive harvest celebration turns into Gaza war protest, October 15, 2023 (Photo: Ka Lok O)
Madison Celebrates Palestine and the Olive HarvestOctober 15, 2023 (Photo: Ka Lok O)
231 Palestinians were killed this year. These are their stories. December 31, 2022
Demanding Freedom For Shireen IssawiRoots To Resistance: A Project About Art Activism And Global Connection, October 15, 2015
Madison Gaza DemonstrationThe International Socialist Organization (ISO), July 19, 2014
End $30 Billion of Military Aid to IsraelVisualizing Palestine, 2013
Interfaith Peace-Builder Delegation to GazaOctober – November 2012. Michele Bahl and Tsela Barr of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, with Cindy and Craig Corrie and others. (Photo by Maya Harris)
An Israeli flare lights up an area on the edge of Gaza City after a day of heavy clashes between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces on January 5, 2009 (MAHMUD HAMS – AFP – Getty Images)
Palestinians protest at the Rafah-Egypt border“My Visit to the Gaza Concentration Camp”, Agustín Velloso, freedetainees.org, August 22, 2008
Erez Crossing, GazaThe Electronic Intifada, May 29, 2005
General Union of Palestinian Women — Rafah Madison-Rafah Sister City Project delegation to Rafah, January 2005
Italian peace activist Nicola Arboscelli, a friend of slain 21-year-old British peace activist Thomas Peter Hurndall, talks with his family in Italy. April 12, 2003 in the Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Abid Katib, Getty Images

Hurndall, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was shot by Israeli troops April 11, 2003 while helping Palestinian children in Rafah. The graffiti memorializes Rachel Corrie, also a member of the International Solidarity Movement, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer March 16, 2003 in the Gaza Strip.
Background image “al Najjar bullet holes” from #ObliteratedFamilies