Gaza’s housing ministry says a tent fire displaced 200 families comprising 800 people, as the UN rights office documents repeated displacement despite the ceasefire.
Israeli military deployments expanded westward over the preceding 2 weeks, triggering renewed Palestinian displacement, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said. Its 30 October 2026 statement, covered by Al Jazeera, documented expansion in Shujayea in Gaza City and in eastern Bureij, eastern Deir el-Balah and eastern al-Maghazi in central Gaza.
The Yellow Line is the military deployment boundary established under the October 2025 Gaza peace plan. The plan’s first phase provided for Israeli forces to withdraw to that line, which initially separated an Israeli-controlled area covering 53 percent of Gaza from the Palestinian-controlled western area.
OHCHR said at least 2 Israeli attacks on displacement camps in Shujayea had been reported. Its account also described explosive robots detonating the few buildings left standing in the area.
The office said it received reports that an Israeli drone dropped munitions on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians at Shujayea junction on 25 October 2026. Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing said the resulting fire displaced 200 families comprising 800 people.
In May 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to extend its control to 70 percent of Gaza. OHCHR described that expansion as Israel’s stated aim, while saying Israeli forces were destroying remaining civilian infrastructure and attacking displacement sites.
The office warned that the repeated displacement continued to raise concerns of ethnic cleansing. It also said Israeli forces appeared to treat the Yellow Line as a “kill zone”, preventing Palestinians from returning to what remained of homes beyond it.
Ajith Sunghay, OHCHR’s head for the occupied Palestinian territory, said people displaced before the ceasefire had little to no prospect of returning. Most areas they fled were inaccessible beyond the Yellow Line, while those displaced continued to be uprooted again and again.
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