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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Ruwaida Amer

Palestinians return home in Gaza, but without their loved ones

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza since the beginning of the ceasefire last month [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Gaza City, Palestine – Aya Hassouna is thin with a pale face. Her eyes are red, and her voice is full of sadness.

She had a husband, Abdullah, and two children, four-year-old Hamza, and two-year-old Raghad. But as she returned with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians to northern Gaza after months of displacement in the south of the enclave, she was travelling alone.

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