The official in cost of implementing the US-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza warned on Wednesday that failure to advance the settlement dangers entrenching “a dangerous status quo.” Referring to Israel’s “yellow line” of separation in Gaza that continues to increase, Nickolay Mladenov mentioned failing to advance the following phases of the ceasefire would entrench Israel’s long-term presence in Gaza and go away two million Palestinians with no viable future. Mladenov held his first briefing with the press in Jerusalem, the place NCS’s Jeremy Diamond analyzed his remarks.