The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Muhannad Hadi, said on Wednesday that “UNRWA has about 13,000 people working in the Gaza Strip. The relationship between the Palestinian people in Gaza and UNRWA will be strengthened, and we will stay with them to restore their lives in a better way.”

Hadi added in a post on the “X” platform, “When I entered Gaza this morning, I felt great hope to see people returning to their places of residence in the Strip.”

“For the first time in months, I saw people on the streets, starting to clean up the roads and trying to rebuild their lives,” he explained.

Hadi pointed out that many residents of the Strip want to “return to work and rebuild instead of relying on aid.”

He stressed that “the needs of the women and children he spoke to were summarized in education, blankets for the winter, and basic clothing after months of deprivation.”

Last Sunday, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into effect, and its first phase will last for 42 days, during which negotiations will begin to begin a second and then a third phase, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States.

Between October 7, 2023 and January 19, the Israeli occupation aggression left more than 158,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.