Despite the loss and destruction, overwhelming joy prevails among Palestinians in various regions of the Gaza Strip, as the temporary truce between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation enters into force at seven o'clock this morning, Friday.

With the start of the truce, thousands of displaced people from shelter schools in the Gaza and northern governorates returned to their homes to inspect them.

Also, a large number of displaced people from Beit Lahia and the Beit Lahia project (north of the Gaza Strip) returned to find their homes completely destroyed, despite their displacement only a week ago, which means that Israel has deliberately in recent days increased and accelerated the pace of destruction of homes in the North Governorate, in addition to a similar act in Gaza City and its northern neighborhoods.

Collective Palestinian calls were issued to the displaced people from Gaza City and the North Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip to return after one o’clock in the afternoon to their homes, despite the Israeli announcement prohibiting this approach, allowing only displacement from north to south via Salah al-Din Street, and threatening to use tools of suppression against the demonstrators in dealing with the situation. 

On Friday morning, the occupation army warned the residents of the Gaza Strip against heading north, saying that it is only allowed to move towards the south, and that the war is not over.

Residents of the Gaza Strip fear that the Israeli occupation will violate the temporary ceasefire, as it did in the 2014 war, while sounds of gunfire and the firing of 3 artillery shells were heard minutes after the truce entered into force.

On the ground, clashes between resistance members and the occupation forces penetrating the areas of Beit Lahia, western Jabalia, and Gaza City did not stop during the last 8 hours before the ceasefire.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed's correspondent stated that the recent clashes in northern Beit Lahia and western Jabalia are the most violent since the start of the ground aggression, and have not stopped for a single moment during the last eight hours.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed