They returned under a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, walking for hours to reach the bombed-out landscape.

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They walked for hours loaded with whatever clothes, food and blankets they could carry. Many smiled, some hugged loved ones ...

Israeli troops pull back but maintain a watchful eye on the tens of thousands of Gazans who had been displaced during the 15 ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into northern Gaza on Monday after Israel lifted its closure of the north for ...

Tens of thousands of displaced Gaza residents ended months of exile in temporary camps and began returning to what was left ...

Israel on Monday began permitting thousands of Palestinians to return to the devastated northern Gaza Strip for the first ...

Israel let tens of thousands of Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for the first time since the early weeks of the ...

The Palestinian population must not be expelled from Gaza, the German foreign ministry said on Monday after U.S. President ...

Large numbers of Palestinians headed to the north of the Gaza Strip for the first time in months after Israel withdrew part ...