"More than half a million people have returned to Gaza (City) since yesterday," said Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the civil defense, a rescue service operating under the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, AFP reported.
Many displaced Palestinians were left stunned by the destruction even as others were relieved to find their homes still standing.
Israel agreed to the truce on Friday and pulled back troops from several areas of the territory, prompting long columns of exhausted residents to set off for the north along a coastal road.
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