http://archive.today/2025.07.14-115732/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-cease-fire.html

An Israeli proposal to force much of Gaza’s population into a small zone in the territory’s south has threatened to derail the latest effort to achieve a truce between Israel and Hamas.

In recent weeks, Israeli officials have briefed journalists and foreign counterparts on a loose plan to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians into an area controlled by Israel’s military close to the Gaza-Egypt border. Legal experts have warned that the plan would violate international law because the civilians would be barred from returning to their homes to the north, a restriction that would constitute a form of ethnic cleansing.