Displaced Gazans heading north to wrecked homes as Israeli troops withdraw after truce
Displaced Palestinians have begun returning to northern Gaza following the implementation of a ceasefire agreement between the Hamas resistance movement and the Israeli regime, aimed at end the genocidal war.
The Palestinians were starting to walk north to return to their wrecked and abandoned homes on Friday after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that Israeli troops were begun pulling back from parts of the territory to the agreed-upon deployment lines.
As soon as the troops withdrew, thousands of people were seen flooding back to Gaza City on foot along roads.
By midday on Friday, Israeli tanks had withdrawn from al-Rashid Road, which stretches from southern to northern Gaza and had previously been blocked to prevent displaced people from returning home.
Meanwhile, the Israeli regime published a list of 250 prisoners to be released in exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal.
However, the list does not include the names of several senior Palestinian leaders, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat.
Now, the 72-hour period to release all 48 remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza has started.
Gaza massacre
The ceasefire came after Palestinians reported heavy Israeli shelling on Friday morning in northern Gaza.
Gaza witnessed new Israeli attacks in the hours leading up to Israel’s announcement of the ceasefire implementation on Friday morning.
The occupying regime conducted air and artillery strikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis.
Medical sources also report that 35 dead bodies have been recovered from under the rubble since morning.
Israeli attacks continued on Thursday in the besieged Gaza Strip despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire had been reached to end the two-year aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Israeli cabinet ratified the agreement on Friday morning, just hours after Hamas announced that a deal had been reached.
On Thursday, Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya confirmed that the Palestinian movement had also approved the agreement to end the Israeli aggression.
He added that mediators had provided guarantees that the signing of the deal would mean the war “has ended indefinitely.”
A new analysis finds that the Israeli military produced three-dimensional or animated visualizations not based on verified intelligence but fabricated content and digital assets to justify the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Since October 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, over 80 percent of whom are believed to be civilians, according to leaked data from the Israeli military.
The assault also caused widespread famine and led to the destruction or damage of nearly every standing structure in Gaza – including homes, hospitals, schools, mosques and churches.
Numerous international bodies, UN experts and countries have classified Israel’s actions as acts of genocide against the Palestinian people.
