Palestinians Return to Gaza City

Palestinians return to Gaza City as mediators look ahead to next stage
Displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza City this week found a city in ruins after 15 months of fighting, with many seeking shelter amongst the rubble and searching for relatives lost in the chaotic return march.
Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in north Gaza: ‘The war has taken everything precious to us’
Scrambling over sand banks and craters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew
Exhausted Palestinians arrive in Gaza City to no homes, killed family
Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the second day, walking kilometres to reach home.
Palestinians make long trek back to their demolished homes in Gaza
After a ceasefire deal paused 15 months of war in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to the rubble of their homes.
Northern Gaza is shattered. The spirit of returning Palestinians is not
Crowds of Palestinians fill Gaza’s main coastal road as they stream north. With their belongings on their backs, they smile, hug and sing, overjoyed at the prospect of returning home after more than a year of war.
Palestinians in Gaza return to find their city in ruins after Israeli troops withdraw
With a ceasefire agreement pausing the war between Israel and Hamas, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza city centers. For the first time in eight months, NPR got a glimpse of Rafah this week.
Gaza ceasefire: how are Palestinians returning north checked for weapons?
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza have passed through checkpoints in a central zone of the enclave where scanners check for concealed weapons being taken in cars and vehicles.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians return to shattered northern Gaza
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are streaming into Gaza's most heavily destroyed area after Israel lifted its closure of the north.
Drone shows thousands returning to ruins of Gaza after ceasefire deal
Drone footage has captured huge crowds of Palestinians returning to Gaza City on foot under a ceasefire deal, after Hamas agreed to hand over three Israeli hostages later this week and Israeli forces began to withdraw across the enclave.
I walked 11 hours to finally return to my home in Gaza – finding my town destroyed and my house without walls
Nedal Hamdouna, a Palestinian journalist, has been displaced seven times by the 15-month war in Gaza. Here, he describes the ...
Satellite photos show the Gaza Strip before and after the devastation of the Israel-Hamas war
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.
Ceasefire Brings Hope To Children In Gaza
Despite the extreme hardships they have experienced and the long road ahead, children in Gaza are holding fast to their ...
Middle East live updates: 3 names revealed of hostages to be released
Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...
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Israeli troops to remain in Jenin refugee camp, defence minister says
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