GAZA/JERUSALEM/DOHA - The Hamas-run media office on Thursday accused the Israeli military of a "blatant violation" of the cease-fire agreement, claiming Israel expanded the Yellow Line boundary that restricts its operations east of Gaza City.

In a statement, the Hamas office alleged the Israeli army had committed a "new act of aggression" by pushing into eastern Gaza City and moving the yellow markers.

The army extended the Yellow Line by 300 meters into the Al-Shaaf, Al-Nazzaz, and Baghdad neighborhoods, the statement claimed, adding that this move resulted in the encirclement of dozens of families who were unable to leave after tanks unexpectedly entered the area.

The office noted that the fate of many of these families remains unknown amid ongoing shelling in the vicinity.

The Yellow Line serves as the Israeli military's redeployment boundary under the initial phase of the cease-fire deal. Maps indicate the boundary extends between 1.5 and 6.5 kilometers inside Gaza from the eastern border, covering approximately 47 percent of the enclave. This line effectively splits Gaza into an eastern zone under Israeli military oversight and a western zone where Palestinians have fewer restrictions on movement.

The Hamas office appealed to the agreement's mediators and guarantors to intervene and force Israel to comply with the ceasefire terms.

Meanwhile, Gaza-based Health authorities said in its daily report that 33 people were killed and 88 wounded in the past 24 hours.

The authorities reported that 312 people have been killed and 760 others injured since the ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct 10, while 572 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble during the same period, bringing the death toll of the war in Gaza to 69,546.

Also on Thursday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said that four Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were injured during a large-scale military operation in Nablus in the northern West Bank.

The Israeli army said in a statement that a soldier was moderately wounded in a shooting incident in Nablus, adding that the army "conducted a large-scale operation in several villages deep within Nablus, with the aim of finding weapons and carrying out arrests."

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its medical teams had transported four people with gunshot wounds to Rafidia hospital from various neighborhoods in Nablus.

'Espionage tasks'

Separately, Israeli authorities said on Thursday they had charged a 22-year-old Israeli soldier with carrying out espionage tasks on behalf of Iranian intelligence, following his arrest last month.

In a joint statement, the Shin Bet internal security agency and the police said that Rafael Reuveni, a resident of the southern city of Beersheba, "maintained contact with Iranian intelligence agents and knowingly operated under their direction."

Reuveni is charged with contacting a foreign agent and providing information to Iran, according to the statement.

According to another statement released by the State Attorney's Office, Reuveni carried out tasks such as filming a park, documenting a bus stop, and recording activity inside a shopping mall.

In one instance, he was sent to the city of Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv, to check whether a handgun hidden at a location was real or a toy. After refusing to hand the gun to another person, he was told to move it to a different spot in exchange for 2,000 shekels (about 616 U.S. dollars)

Prosecutors said Reuveni also provided information about the military base where he served, including details on manpower and emergency procedures, and promised to update the operative if the base shifted to wartime footing.

He was later asked to supply details about other individuals for possible recruitment and to retrieve a SIM card from a cafe, though he failed to locate it.

In total, the Iranian operative transferred roughly $2,700 to Reuveni via a digital wallet, the State Attorney's Office said.

It was the second time this week that an Israeli was accused of spying for Iran. On Sunday, a man was charged with gathering information for Iranian intelligence, including by obtaining details from his girlfriend, a reservist at an air force base.

Since the start of the war in Gaza in 2023, the Shin Bet has uncovered dozens of espionage cases involving Israelis suspected of working for Iranian intelligence. 

'Dangerous escalation'

Qatar on Thursday condemned Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip that killed and injured civilians, warning that the strikes marked a dangerous escalation that could undermine the ceasefire in the enclave.

In a statement on its official website, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said it "strongly condemns the brutal attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip."

The ministry urged regional and international partners to help maintain the ceasefire as a step toward ending the war in Gaza and achieving lasting peace in the region. Qatar is a key mediator and one of the guarantors of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that began on Oct. 10.