Overview
- Israel Katz publicly commended IDF operations and said troops will keep destroying Hamas tunnels and the buildings above them to remove threats.
- A January 12 New York Times analysis of satellite imagery reported more than 2,500 buildings razed since the October 10 cease-fire, with whole blocks, farmland and greenhouses erased.
- Haaretz published Planet Labs images showing IDF entrenchment along the Yellow Line and activity hundreds of meters into areas officially outside Israeli control.
- Imagery indicates expanded destruction in parts of Jabalya and the Shujaiyeh neighborhood, including zones both within and beyond areas the IDF controls, as residents report barriers shifting westward.
- Forensic Architecture says Israel erected 13 new outposts after the truce, totaling 48 linked by new roads, while legal experts and a UN rapporteur question whether the scale of demolition meets Article 53’s ‘absolute necessity’ standard.