A search for Beit Hanoun in Google Maps will reveal a massive Star of David carved into the ground of former farmland in northern Gaza.

The full scale of the humanitarian challenge ahead is emerging as displaced Palestinians return home, writes the BBC's Paul Adams.

More than 375,000 Palestinians have made their way back to homes in northern Gaza after 15 months on the run because of war.

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning home to northern Gaza on Monday, bracing for what awaits them in a region that has been reduced to rubble by months of brutal bombardment and fighting.

The Hamas Beit Hanoun Battalion Commander was filmed walking among the rubble as he spoke of Hamas's 'victory' in Gaza. In May the IDF claimed to have eliminated him.

Even before the ceasefire officially took effect, many Palestinians moved through the wreckage to reach their homes, some on foot and others hauling their belongings on donkey carts.

On the tenth day of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, convoys of returnees continue to flood the central and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, traveli

Hamas officials accused Israel on Wednesday of delaying aid deliveries to Gaza and jeopardising a truce and hostage release deal, an allegation Israel dismissed as "fake news."

Displaced again and again, the ceasefire allowed the Abu Jarad to return to their hollowed-out, destroyed – but still standing – home.

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Steve Witkoff helped negotiate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. His visit to Gaza pn Wednesday was the first by a senior U.S. official in more than a decade.