The US-backed Board of Peace has hardened the conditions for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza after its senior officials met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The board linked any Israeli withdrawal beyond the Yellow Line, which divides Gaza into areas occupied by Israeli and Palestinian control, to the complete disarmament of Hamas, abandoning the phased approach it presented last week. The Yellow Line was established following the so-called ceasefire of October 2025. Netanyahu told Mladenov that Israel would neither stop attacking Gaza nor pull back from the Yellow Line, Israel Hayom reported. Hours after the meeting, an Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Ajlin neighbourhood.