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'Full Of Sorrow': Gazans Trek Home As Truce Begins

Displaced Palestinian civilians were at first nervous to return to their homes as Israeli forces beagn a ceasefire, but a trickle soon turned into a flood of people heading north to Gaza City (Credit: AFP)

Full of grief after two years of war but glad to be going home, thousands of displaced Palestinians set off across the Gaza Strip on Friday, as a truce between Israel and Hamas took hold.

Timidly at first, then in a huge column, thousands walked northwards in a line at least a kilometre long from the safer areas of central Gaza towards Gaza City, the scene of a gruelling Israeli offensive before Friday's ceasefire.

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