Location at an overview: Palestinians return to the north of Gazas

While hundreds of thousands of Palestinian displaced persons return to their devastated residential areas in the north of the Gaza Strip, the people in Israel are waiting for the return of other hostages kidnapped to Gaza. Video recordings on social media showed kilometers of snakes from people in the destroyed Gaza Strip, who were on foot over a designated route by the sea. According to unconfirmed reports, despite the current ceasefire, there were once again dead through Israeli attacks. Israel’s army wanted to check the reports.

Video German-Israeli Geisel published

Meanwhile, the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) published a video of the German-Israeli Geisel Arbel Yehud. In it, the 29-year-old assures her family that she is doing well and that she will come home “like the other women”, reported the “Times of Israel”. Your release was announced for Thursday.

The young woman was kidnapped and her boyfriend from her home to Gaza during the attack by Hamas and other terrorists on October 7, 2023. Her brother, who lived in the same place near the sealed coastal area, was killed. The massacre with around 1,200 deaths triggered the Gaza war.

As a civilianist, Yehud should have been released on Saturday. Ultimately, Hamas left four soldiers free. Because of this violation of the ceasefire deal, Israel delayed the also agreed return of the Palestinian residents to the north of Gaza. When Hamas steered and announced Yehud’s release, Israel allowed people to return to the north on Monday.

Hamas: 300,000 people returned to North Gaza

According to the Hamas media office, around 300,000 people in the north arrived on the first day. Regardless of this, this information could not be checked at first. But the United Nations also spoke of “hundreds of thousands” on platform X.

Israel’s floor offensive had started in the north. At that time, the military handled the north from the rest of the coastal area. Hundreds of thousands of residents were expelled into the south in the course of the more than 15-month war, where they mostly lived in emergency tent camps.

According to Hamas, it expects the number of returnees to increase to around 600,000 in the coming days. Overall, more than two million people live in the densely populated Gaza Strip.

The returnee by car must pass a control point. Private security forces of an American and an Egyptian company control the vehicles to ensure that no weapons come north, as the newspaper “Times of Israel” reported, citing an Egyptian civil servant. This was one of the conditions of the Israeli head of government Benjamin Netanyahu for the ceasefire initially created for six weeks.

Palestinians: Dead in Israeli air raid in Gaza

Despite the fire break, according to a hospital, there were two dead and several injuries in the refugee district of Nuseirira. In addition, a child died according to eyewitnesses when a horse team was hit by a rocket. A man was also killed in the fire of a planier caterpillar. None of the information could be checked independently.

During the first phase of the ceasefire, a total of 33 Israeli hostages are to be replaced by 1,904 Palestinian prisoners. According to the Hamas, eight of the 33 kidnapped are dead, the others are alive. Israel’s government spokesman said that a list transmitted by the Hamas corresponds to these figures with Israeli intelligence information. So far, Hamas has released seven young women against 290 prisoners.

Un against Trump plans for Gaza

Meanwhile, the United Nations decidedly reject the idea of ​​US President Donald Trump to relocate the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to Arab countries. “Of course we would be against every plan that could lead to the forced relocation of people or to some kind of ethnic cleaning,” said the spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric, in New York. He emphasized that Egypt and Jordan also critically commented on the plan of the US President.

Trump had told journalists that Egypt and Jordan could accommodate people. He suggested building apartments in another place where the Palestinians might “live for a change in peace”. This could be temporary or long -term, he replied to a question of journalists. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas warns of a possible expulsion of the residents of the coastal strip. In his view, that would be “a blatant violation of the red lines”.