Fireworks greeted the arrival of buses carrying 90 Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank’s Ramallah on the first day of the ceasefire. Among those released from Israeli prisons were 69 women and 21 teenagers from the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to Hamas.
Tens of thousands of people have returned to their bombed-out neighborhoods in Gaza to begin the even more difficult task of rebuilding a life from the rubble. At the same time, trucks delivered humanitarian aid. Elsewhere in Gaza, crowds cheered for the survivors and wept for the thousands of victims.
“I feel like I finally found some water to drink. It was like I was lost in the desert for 15 months,” Aya, who was displaced from her home in Gaza City, told Reuters.
The streets in the devastated city were already lined with groups of people waving the Palestinian flag and filming the scenes with their cellphones. Several carts loaded with items traveled down a road littered with rubble and debris.
“We are in deep pain, but it is time to embrace each other and cry,” said Ahmed Ayham, a 40-year-old Gaza resident, who said the truce had spared new casualties but the devastation the Palestinian territories have suffered leaves no time for celebrations.
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