Hamas fighters escort a Red Cross vehicle to collect Israeli hostages released after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect, in Gaza City Sunday, January 19, 2025. (Photo by Abed Hajjar/AP Photo)





Internally displaced Palestinians walk along a street among the rubble of destroyed buildings amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 20 January 2025. Israel and Hamas implemented the first phase of a hostage release and ceasefire deal on 19 January 2025. More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, since Israel launched a military campaign in the strip in response to a cross-border attack led by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on 07 October 2023, in which about 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 250 taken hostage. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA/EFE)





Palestinians rush to take aid from a truck, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 21, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)





A Palestinian child stands along with people gathered to receive aid boxes provided by UNRWA, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Palestinians run towards aid trucks after crossing into the Gaza Strip, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 21, 2025. (Photo by Hussam Al-Masri/Reuters)





Palestinians look at damaged Israeli military vehicles left behind by Israeli forces, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 22, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Fighters of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, attend the funeral of two fighters in Gaza City on January 24, 2025, after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas in the coastal Palestinian territory. A senior Hamas official told AFP that his group will provide on January 24, the names of four Israeli women hostages to be freed the following day as part of a second release under the ceasefire with Israel. The truce, the second in the more than 15 months of war, began on January 19, with the first three hostages released in exchange for around 90 Palestinian prisoners. (Photo by Omar Al-Qatta/AFP Photo)





A drone view shows Palestinians waiting to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza after they were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 26, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People, including children, try to protect themselves from the cold weather by lighting a fire as Palestinians, who were forcibly displaced as a result of Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip for more than 15 months, continue to wait at a point close to the Netzarim Corridor on Salah al-Din Road to return to their homes in the north after the completion of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement on January 26, 2025 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Palestinian prisoners released by Israel wave and cheer to people below gathering to receive them at a sports centre building of the Ramallah municipality, after arriving there aboard buses of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on January 25, 2025. Palestinian militants and Israel carried out a hostage-prisoner swap on January 25 under a Gaza ceasefire deal, but a last-minute dispute blocked the expected return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to devastated northern Gaza. (Photo by Zain Jaafar/AFP Photo)





Freed Palestinian prisoners are greeted by people after being released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)





A Palestinian man, who was displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, carries a child on his shoulders as he arrives on foot while making his way back to his home in the northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)





A family on a horse-drawn cart struggles to cross a puddle of water as displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip , following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, January 27, 2025. (Photo by Abed Hajjar/AP Photo)





Palestinians, displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, wait to have their vehicles inspected by the Egyptian-Qatari committee as they return to their homes in northern Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Palestinians wait to head back to their homes in northern Gaza by vehicle through Salahudeen Road in the central Gaza Strip, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





People sit on a vehicle as Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, wait to head back to their homes in northern Gaza by vehicle through Salahudeen Road, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, wait to head back to their homes in northern Gaza by vehicle through Salahudeen Road, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Palestinians wait to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza with vehicles through Salahudeen road after they were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war in the central Gaza Strip, on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Tuesday, January 28, 2025. (Photo by Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo)





Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel's order during the war, make their way as they return to their homes in northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)