Mahmoud Harzeen

“Every time we have to flee, we have to move closer to it. We keep moving.”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen described how each displacement forces his family closer to the Yellow Line with nowhere else to go.

“The next morning, we took our bedding and our things and left.”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen described having to abandon his tent after sleeping in it just one night due to the Yellow Line advancing again.

“They will probably move it forward again,”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen is preparing for the possibility of having to move again as the Yellow Line continues advancing.

“The night they move the line, there are tanks, infantry coming down, and shells being fired,”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen described the frightening nights when the Yellow Line advances, with tanks, troops, and heavy shelling.

“All of that happens just so they can move the yellow block a little further forward.”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen described the military operations accompanying the movement of the Yellow Line's concrete blocks.

“I pitched the tent and slept in it for one night,”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen's most recent move barely lasted one night before Israeli forces moved the Yellow Line forward again.

“About six times – every time the line advanced a little – I would feel that it was dangerous, so I would move back a little and try to live there for a while,”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen recalled being displaced about six times as the Yellow Line advanced, moving through Zeitoun, Sahat al-Shawa, and al-Muntazah.

“Every time they move forward a little, we move back a little,”

Mahmoud Harzeen · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13

Harzeen is pitching a tent near the Yellow Line and has been displaced multiple times as Israel shifts the demarcation deeper into Gaza.