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Israeli Maintaining Control Deeper Inside Gaza Than Expected

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The Israeli military is exerting control over more of the Gaza Strip than expected under the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC analysis has found.

Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza. The divide was marked by a yellow line on maps released by the military and has become known as the "Yellow Line".

But new videos and satellite images show that markers placed by Israeli troops in two areas to mark the divide have been positioned hundreds of metres deeper inside the strip than the expected withdrawal line.

If these two sections of boundary were typical of how the markers were being placed along the entirety of the line then Israel would be exerting

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