UN condemns Israel for trying to divide Gaza along 'yellow line'

The United Nations has condemned Israel for trying to divide the Gaza Strip.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric was responding to Israeli Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir’s assertion that the so-called “yellow line” that currently divides the Gaza Strip is the “new border” with Israel.

Israeli soldiers now occupy roughly 58 percent of Gaza. US and Israeli officials have discussed rebuilding this largely empty area, while leaving the portion of Gaza controlled by Hamas unreconstructed. 

Dujarric said the idea of dividing Gaza “seems to me to go against the spirit and the letter of the Trump peace plan”.

“We firmly stand against any change of the borders of Gaza and Israel,” he added.