Walid Abu Libdeh and his daughter returned to their home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, only to find it had been ruined beyond recognition.
Rafah was home to over a million Palestinians displaced from the Israel-Hamas war. Now, Palestinians in Gaza wade through rubble to see what remains.
Aid trucks drove through the rubble in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah on Wednesday, while displaced Palestinians—many of them children—chased after the vehicles, desperately trying to grab aid boxes off the moving trucks.
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the militant group Hamas, Gazans are finally returning home. But, after 15 months of war, many residential neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble.
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Israel has confirmed that it will maintain control over the Rafah border crossing, the key passage between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Displaced people were seen returning to Rafah on Monday, January 20, the second day after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect.The deal stipulated a pause in fighting and the release of the three Israeli captives and approximately 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports on Wednesday that he allowed the Palestinian Authority to run the Rafah border crossing on the border between Gaza and Egypt. The border crossing is slated to open next week on day seven of a ceasefire agreement that halted Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The European Union is in talks to revive a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah following the announcement of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.