Shelling at night, gunfire by day in Israel's expanding zone of control in Gaza
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On the ground, there are no markers indicating where the orange zone begins and ends. The original yellow line of control — which last year marked the border between Israeli-controlled Gaza and areas run by Hamas — is also moving deeper into Gaza , and is only partially marked in places.

The United Nations humanitarian office says around 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the ceasefire in areas of Gaza close to the military's shifting lines of control along its yellow and orange lines. They are among the more than 1,000 who have been killed across the devastated territory in that same period, according to Gaza's health ministry.

Israel's military has commented on some of these attacks, saying its forces shot in self-defense at people it says posed an immediate threat to troops. The U.N. says a third of those killed have been women and children.

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