“Humanitarian” area in southern Gaza announced today (Sept. 6, 2025) by Israeli army: spatial dataset and analysis

This morning (September 6, 2025), the Israeli army spokesman tweeted a new map of a new version of the “Humanitarian Area” in southern Gaza. This designation, which quietly disappeared from IDF usage in January 2025, is declared as the intended destination for Gazans soon to be displaced by the threatened attacks on and evacuation of Gaza City and, potentially, the central camps of Gaza as well. This dataset consists of a spatial dataset (KML file) of this area extracted from the IDF web site, and a contextualization and analysis of this new designation and its shortcomings.