Walid Abu Libdeh and his daughter returned to their home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, only to find it had been ruined beyond recognition.
While some Palestinians were able to dig up miscellaneous items deep under the rubble, many felt hopeless after dreaming about the possibility of returning to their homes and repairing or rebuilding them.
Rafah was home to over a million Palestinians displaced from the Israel-Hamas war. Now, Palestinians in Gaza wade through rubble to see what remains.
Aid trucks drove through the rubble in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah on Wednesday, while displaced Palestinians—many of them children—chased after the vehicles, desperately trying to grab aid boxes off the moving trucks.
Leila and Ibrahim el Arja fled their home in Rafah, southern Gaza, in May last year. This week they returned, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but what they found only added to their devastation.
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Israel has confirmed that it will maintain control over the Rafah border crossing, the key passage between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
An NBC News crew returned to Rafah's Al-Najjar Hospital months after Israel's ground offensive forced the hospital to close and thousands to evacuate. Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals in Gaza,
Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
NBC News filmed grief-stricken Gazan families identifying the bodies of their loved ones, found under the rubble in Rafah and Khan Younis as the ceasefire allowed recovery efforts to be stepped up.