Despite the extreme hardships they have experienced and the long road ahead, children in Gaza are holding fast to their dreams of a better future.

"I feel a mixture of happiness because lives are being saved and blood is being stopped," said Mr Dahman, who was also displaced from Gaza City and lives in Deir al-Balah. "But I am also worried about the post-war shock of what we will see in the streets ...

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war.

As families reunite, they also confront the devastation wrought by the 15-month war. Tens of thousands of tents are being sent to northern Gaza, where entire neighborhoods have been flattened.

For nearly 16 months, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have lived in tents, barred from returning to northern Gaza. On Monday, Israel allowed them to walk back.

It is another test for the truce that is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and the militant group.

Hamas militants on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers they held captive for 15 months in a planned exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees in Israel. It’s the second

The corpses keep coming every day, sometimes dozens at a time brought to morgues in the Palestinian enclave, after being pried from under 15 months of rubble and pulled from battle zones long too dang

Hamas announced on Friday that it would release four female soldiers held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, as part of an exchange for Palestinian prisoners laid out in its ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Israel was set to release 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees later in the day as part of the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas agrees to release hostages as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, exchanging them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel