Israeli officials have threatened to arrest Palestinians in the occupied West Bank if they celebrate the release of Palestinians held in Israel. Since the ceasefire began on Friday, tens of thousands of Palestinians have streamed back into northern Gaza to find their old neighborhoods reduced to ruins. New drone footage shows vast areas of northern Gaza, where every structure has been destroyed or heavily damaged.

In recent days, Palestinians have retrieved more than 295 bodies that had been trapped under the rubble from Israeli attacks. Mahmoud Abo Emeira is a Gaza City resident who returned to find his home destroyed.

Mahmoud Abo Emeira: “This was the most beautiful place this camp. But now, you can see, it’s rubble, destruction. Life isn’t life anymore. We can’t find water. We can’t find food. We can’t find anything to drink. It’s like we’ve gone back to disaster. It’s like a nightmare, something you would have never imagined seeing. Tell me, could you ever have imagined this happening to you? I ask myself. No, we never imagined something like this could happen to us, a machine of destruction, a machine of war.”

In other news from Gaza, the prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi was shot dead on Sunday by an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia in Gaza City. Meanwhile, Drop Site News reports Israeli forces in recent days set fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City.