The Israeli military marks the Yellow Line with large yellow-painted cement blocks and has moved them westward as it occupies more and more territory. It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line. AdvertisementThe Yellow Line is a quiet thief. Mahmoud Malaka, 66, tends to a small garden beside his displacement tent at Abu Marahil Camp near the Yellow Line. “The Yellow Line is a quiet thief.