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Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home

A man looks out from his damaged apartment at the destruction in his neighborhood in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after returning home following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire and the release of remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A man looks out from his damaged apartment at the destruction in his neighborhood in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after returning home following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire and the release of remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians with their belongings pass by destroyed buildings as they return to their homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians with their belongings pass by destroyed buildings as they return to their homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A displaced Palestinian family, rides on a truck loaded with water tanks, furniture and other belongings as they travel along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, heading toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A displaced Palestinian family, rides on a truck loaded with water tanks, furniture and other belongings as they travel along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, heading toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians gather on the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians gather on the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An elderly displaced Palestinian woman carries an item past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
An elderly displaced Palestinian woman carries an item past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Destroyed buildings and rubble are seen in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Destroyed buildings and rubble are seen in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli soldiers stand near their tanks along the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Israeli soldiers stand near their tanks along the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians walk with their belongings along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians walk with their belongings along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians wave to the camera as they move in the direction of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
Displaced Palestinians wave to the camera as they move in the direction of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
Displaced Palestinians cling to the back of a truck loaded with belongings as it drives along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, heading toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians cling to the back of a truck loaded with belongings as it drives along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, heading toward Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians carrying their belongings walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip at sunset, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians carrying their belongings walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip at sunset, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli soldiers stand near their tanks along the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Israeli soldiers stand near their tanks along the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Palestinians inspect a damaged armored personnel carrier left behind by Israeli forces amid destroyed buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians inspect a damaged armored personnel carrier left behind by Israeli forces amid destroyed buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to pause their war and release the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A Palestinian boy lies on a mattress amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A Palestinian boy lies on a mattress amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian families who have been displaced by Israel's two-year war on Hamas have started returning to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli military announced a ceasefire with Hamas.

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