The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Sunday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued a new set of secret arrest warrants against five senior Israeli political and military officials for alleged war crimes against Palestinians. The news, had it been true, would have marked a monumental expansion of the legal net closing around the regime’s leadership. However, within hours, the ICC had issued a denial of the report.
ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet issued a clarification, stating that the report was "inaccurate" and that the court "denies the issuance of new arrest warrants in the situation in the state of Palestine".
While the world looked toward The Hague, the Israeli military was aggressively violating the already fragile October ceasefire. At dawn on Sunday, a column of Israeli military vehicles advanced deep into the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis. As armored vehicles moved in under the cover of heavy gunfire and artillery shelling, witnesses described a scene of chaos and terror.
The incursion had a specific, illegal objective: the physical expansion of the so called "Yellow Line". This is the new de facto border that Israeli forces have carved out inside the Gaza Strip, separating the areas under full occupation from the shrinking "safe zones" allocated to Palestinians. On Sunday, military bulldozers rolled into the Al-Raqab and Al-Fajm neighborhoods, pushing the concrete blocks demarcating the Yellow Line dozens of meters westward. As the line moves, homes are demolished. Witnesses said a military bulldozer systematically razed several residential buildings, reducing them to rubble and forcibly displacing entire families who fled toward the central and western sectors of Khan Younis.
The ground invasion was accompanied by a lethal aerial campaign. Medical sources told Anadolu Agency that an Israeli drone strike targeted a gathering of civilians in central Khan Younis on Sunday. Paramedics recovered the body of one Palestinian who was killed instantly, while four others arrived at Nasser Hospital with severe wounds.
This violence is not an aberration; it is the daily rhythm of the "ceasefire". Data compiled by the Gaza Health Ministry shows that since the truce took effect on October 10, 2025, the Israeli army has killed over 870 Palestinians and injured more than 2,540 others. The majority of these victims are, as has been the case throughout the war, women and children.