In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, the crowd sings and chants slogans, shots are fired in the air. Thousands are celebrating the entry into force of the truce in Gaza this morning, with crowds parading along the streets joining displaced people who are beginning to return to the Strip after fleeing during the 15 months of war.
International networks relaunch the first images and collect the first testimonies, of joy but for many in the awareness that they may no longer find anything when they return to where their home once was. “Our homes were swept away, so we will set up a tent and stay in our neighborhood, so we can feel that we are back in our neighborhood, in our home,” he says Saleem Nabhan quoted by the BBC. Meanwhile, the gallery of photographs from the morning scrolls by, with dozens of young people along the streets aboard cars, motorcycles, vans, waving Palestinian flags, there are those who show scarves with the words ‘I Love Gazà. There are families with small children, next to men with covered faces holding weapons.
In Gaza the population is celebrating the ceasefire by also offering sweets on the streetmany “waiting for the moment to be able to return to the north to see what conditions their homes are in”, the residents of the Strip told ANSA. From the moment the truce began, the population rushed to the markets to get food, after more than 250 trucks of goods and humanitarian aid were authorized to enter the Strip. People also say they are “angry at Hamas for what it has done causing thousands of deaths.”