Investigation Shows Israel Took More Territory Than Allowed, As Ceasefire Breaches Occur Daily

Israeli actions continue to ignore the ceasefire agreement

An Israeli digger moves one of the yellow blocks to mark the line of control | Image source: IDF

By Dominick Skinner | 26 October 2025

Israel has expanded their line of control inside Gaza, beyond the territory agreed under the ceasefire agreement signed on 11 October. BBC Verify released new satellite evidence showing that Israeli forces have quietly pushed hundred of meters beyond the boundary they agreed to respect. The BBC’s headline not doing enough to call out the illegality of the move, saying “New images show Israeli control line deeper into Gaza than expected,” a headline that entirely fails to call out the crime by Israel, as is the norm when the BBC reports on Israel.

Bulldozers and tanks have carved out fresh ground under the pretext of “security.” This is a clear attempt to carve out ceasefire “violations” where they legally cannot occur, the Israeli military acting on the assumption that their claims will be taken by the world’s media without hesitation, once their faux line of control is '“violated".”

Screenshot from the BBC investigation shows the 520m distance between the agreed line of control and the effective line of control.

And while Israel is shifting the ground, we are also seeing a host of violations by Israel, despite Hamas’ continued adherence to the agreement. As of writing, we are about 12 hours past the latest bombing of Gaza, 15 days after the ceasefire agreement began. As expected, the violations by Israel remain largely ignored by outlets in the US and Europe.

There have been several accusations of ceasefire violations by Hamas and individual Palestinians thus far, none of which have been substantiated with evidence, despite the level of surveillance Israeli troops have across the Strip.

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In one instance, Israel claimed that they had been attacked by a group of terrorists in Khan Yunis, however, the “attack” turned out to be an Israeli bulldozer mistakenly driving over a munition, with the resulting explosion killing two of their own soldiers. Israel immediately restarted carpet bombing following the event, with much of the world’s media repeating the false claims.

The USA has shielded Israeli violations, and has already begun setting up the environment where Israel can hold their illegally expanded territory. Speaking at a policy forum in Washington, Jared Kushner made it official that U.S. reconstruction funds will only reach areas of Gaza under Israeli control. He said, “We’re not rebuilding for Hamas,” and with that one sentence, American money was placed under Israeli occupation. What he described as a safeguard is in reality a policy of selective reconstruction, designed to normalise which parts of Gaza are allowed to live again and which parts are left as rubble, drawn along racial and ethnic lines.

It is a plan that turns humanitarian aid into an instrument of domination, despite the world’s court ruling that Israeli must supply aid to Gaza.

The United States is not rebuilding Gaza, it is rewarding Israel for their genocidal activity. It is the equivalent of handing the arsonist the deed to a house they had just burned down. By tying funds to Israeli control, Kushner has essentially confirmed the logic that Israel can destroy first, occupy second, and then cash in on the rebuilding, simply repeating the pattern that Palestinians are used to dealing with for generations.

Nearly two years after the assault began, Gaza is still a skeleton of what it once was. Streets are flattened into dust, entire neighbourhoods are unrecognisable, while hospitals and schools that were supposed to be protected under international law are now just coordinates in the rubble. More than a hundred Palestinians have been killed since this so-called ceasefire began, every one of them by Israeli fire. And now the world is being asked to pay the same army to rebuild what it destroyed, with some Arab states already seeing through the scam.

This policy didn’t appear out of nowhere. Kushner’s words are an echo of the Trump-era “Deal of the Century,” which proposed to turn Gaza into a free-trade project on the Mediterranean. The plan then was to sell economic dreams in exchange for sovereignty, to commercialize the coastline and call it progress. The plan now is almost identical, except this time it hides behind the moral cover of reconstruction. The vocabulary has changed, but the intention is the same.

What is being marketed as aid will not reach the families in tents or the children sleeping beside the ruins of their schools. The money will be filtered through Israeli administration, directed toward infrastructure that strengthens Israeli control. Displaced Palestinians will have no say in rebuilding their own homes, because their homes are now inside the zones that Israel plans to keep. The ultimate proof that the Nakba was not a historical event, but an ongoing one.

Meanwhile, Israel’s control line continues to crawl forward each day. Bulldozers move where reporters are not allowed to go, flattening what little remains of the land’s memory. The ceasefire is not a promise of peace, it is a pause long enough to allow Israel to plant flags.

What is happening now is not postwar recovery, it is the formalisation of control. It is occupation written into the language of policy papers and construction tenders. The future of Gaza is being drawn with bulldozers and American contracts.

The tragedy is that people will read about “rebuilding Gaza” and imagine hope. They will not see that what is being built is ownership of Gaza by their occupier. The aid is flowing again, and purposefully not enough of it, another ceasefire violation. Gaza’s future is being mortgaged to the same hands that buried it.

This is the next phase of occupation, written in contracts, drawn in bulldozer tracks, and funded with American dollars. Much of the world’s media seems to think that is acceptable, therefore, it will continue.

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