Displaced Palestinians return to destroyed homes in Rafah
Displaced Palestinians come home to the rubble of destroyed buildings in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 20
Palestinians take pictures of a destroyed Israeli armoured vehicle inside a school in Rafah during the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
‘No place like home, except most homes are now reduced to rubble’: UNRWA
UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has posted a video on X showing displaced Palestinians returning to their homes, which have largely been destroyed, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The ceasefire has put an end to more than three months of heavy bombardments and a military siege by Israeli forces on the north, which left Palestinians living there with no access to their homes, food, water, medical support or safe passage.
Palestinian Civil Defence says 137 bodies found in Rafah since start of ceasefire
The Gaza rescue organisation says its crews continue to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel’s 15-month war, looking for bodies of those killed. An estimated 10,000 bodies are currently undiscovered under rubble across the Gaza Strip.
Young child killed by Israeli sniper fire: Report
The Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that Israeli forces have shot and killed a young child in central Rafah in southern Gaza. A video filmed by Palestinian journalist Hassan Aslih and verified by Al Jazeera shows the moments after the child was shot.
A man is seen crawling up to the child to remove the body from the scene but is shot at by Israeli troops, forcing him to retreat from the area.
UN reports more than 900 aid trucks entered Gaza today
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 915 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip today, the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
OCHA cited information received from Israeli authorities and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier, Secretary-General Guterres told the UN Security Council that 630 aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday, the first day of the ceasefire.
‘Significant uptick’ in aid entering Gaza: International Rescue Committee
Ciaran Donnelly, the senior vice president for crisis response, recovery, and development at the International Rescue Committee, told Al Jazeera that he is “cautiously optimistic” about the amount of aid entering Gaza since the ceasefire began.
“Seeing 600-800 trucks a day” going in “is a significant uptick from where we’ve been for the last 15 months”, he said.
It is important that this rate of aid continues, he said, “given the extent of the destruction, given the numbers of people who are facing acute food insecurity, whose houses have been destroyed, who have huge immediate needs”.
He added that there also needs to be a lifting of bureaucratic and administrative restrictions to allow enough aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
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