A Palestinian boy pulls a cart loaded with belongings along the heavily damaged Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
The Gaza ceasefire held in its second day as tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to their neighbourhoods on Saturday and Israelis cheered Monday’s expected release of the remaining hostages.
“Gaza is completely destroyed. I have no idea where we should live or where to go,” said Mahmoud al-Shandoghli in Gaza City as bulldozers clawed through the wreckage of two years of war.
Nearby, a boy climbed a shattered building to raise the Palestinian flag.
Israelis applauded US president Donald Trump, and some booed Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as US envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, addressed a weekly rally in Tel Aviv that many hoped would be the last.
Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and Ivanka Trump during a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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