Waffenruhe agreement
Hamas: 300,000 people returned to North Gaza
Israel has allowed the Gaza residents distributed in the south of the Gaza Strip to return to the north. People withdrew in endless columns to their devastated residential areas.
According to the media office of Islamist Hamas, around 300,000 people have already arrived there on the first day of returning for residents of the Gaza Strip to the north of the devastated coastal area. They were driven out in the south of the sealed area in the course of the more than 15-month war. There they mostly lived in makeshift tent camps.
The Hamas information could initially not be checked independently. However, the United Nations also spoke of “hundreds of thousands” on platform X, which returned to the north of the Gaza Strip.
Videos on social media showed kilometers of snakes from people who were walking north on foot via a designated route along the sea. If you had a car, you had to pass a control point in the interior.
It is expected that the number of returnees in the heavily destroyed north will increase to around 600,000 in the coming days, it continued to say from the Hamas media office. Overall, more than two million people live in the Gaza Strip.
As part of an agreement on an ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, it was originally planned that people were allowed to return to the north a week after the end of the fighting. However, since Hamas did not release a German-Israeli civilian on Saturday as agreed, Israel blocked the return. Then there was an agreement on the release, Israel gave the green light to return the Gaza residents.
dpa
Source: Stern
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