Three months ago, fighters approached the Southern Command commander and asked to expand the yellow line so that it would also include the Muslim cemetery where Gvili was buried.

The reason was that it posed a threat to our forces, including spots hidden from the soldiers’ line of sight.

The general approved it, and the boundary was moved. IDF soldiers operated inside the cemetery, including in the nearby house of Hamas senior official Izz al-Din al-Haddad — all without knowing that Gvili was there.