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?️ Parting shot! Photo: Erez Ofer A brilliant orange and blue sunset at Bang Bao Beach on the island of Koh Kood in Thailand — snapped by reader Erez Ofer of Ra'anana, Israel.

The “yellow line” that divides Gaza under the ceasefire plan is now claimed as the “new border”. The IDF Chief Eyal Zamir, said Israel would hold to the current lines behind the yellow line would be held as the border of Israel and presumably defended as such. Here are the facts.. "Military chief says current division of Strip is a ‘forward defensive line for the communities and an offensive line,’ hours after PM says phase 2 of ceasefire deal is imminent During a visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that the Yellow Line, demarcating where the Israeli military withdrew to under the terms of the ongoing ceasefire, is “a new border line.” “We will not allow Hamas to reestablish itself. We control large parts of the Gaza Strip and stand along [strategic] lines. The Yellow Line is a new border line, a forward defensive line for the communities and an offensive line,” Zamir said during a tour of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, in remarks provided by the IDF." ... https://www.timesofisrael.com/touring-the-strip-idf-chief-zamir-says-gaza-ceasefire-line-a-new-border/ ... IDF chief: Gaza's Yellow Line is Israel's new border line | The Jerusalem Post

⛰️ Parting shot! Photo: Rudy Piekarski Rudy Piekarski, a Finish Line reader, gets us in the holiday-week mood with this peaceful image from Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.