Gazan authorities said more than 300,000 people had crossed into the city that faced heavy destruction from Israeli bombardments
Displaced Palestinians walk on a road to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Jan. 28, after Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas.Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, is a shell of the bustling, rough-edged urban centre it was before the war, with swathes of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments and piles of rubble and torn up concrete on every side.
“I am waiting for my father, mother and brother. We lost them on the way,” said Jameel Abed, who walked up from the central area of the Gaza Strip. “We found some lights here and we are waiting for them,” he said.By late on Monday, Gaza’s Hamas authorities said more than 300,000 people, or almost half of those displaced from the north during the war, had crossed into Gaza City and the north edge of the enclave from areas in the south.
In Cairo, a high-profile Hamas team led by Mohammad Darwish, head of the group’s leading council, arrived for talks with Egyptian mediators, and to welcome 70 Palestinian prisoners who arrived in Cairo prior to being moved to third countries who would be willing to host them., agreed this month with Egyptian and Qatari mediation and U.S.
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