As Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza to celebrate the ceasefire, the moments of joy for many faded as they returned to their homes to be met with destruction.
In Jabalia, a town in the northern Gaza Strip that is home to the Strip’s largest refugee camp, images and videos shared by residents showed entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble.
Returning to the al-Fallujah district of Jabalia, Dua al-Khalidi told BBC News: “I survived with my two daughters, we got out from under the rubble of our house.
“The bodies of my husband, my mother-in-law and my daughter-in-law have been buried here, under the rubble, since October 9.”
The 28-year-old mother of two continued: “I want nothing more than their bodies so I can bury them with dignity.”
The Jabalia camp, once home to more than 250,000 Palestinians, became the site of the largest and most brutal Israeli military operation of the war, killing about 4,000 Palestinians, according to Hamas’ health ministry.
