Resigned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the return of tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians from the southern Gaza Strip to the north on Monday morning is a "complete Israeli surrender."

The leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, via the X platform on Monday, denounced the opening of the Netzarim road this morning and the entry of tens of thousands of Palestinians into the northern Gaza Strip.

He stressed that these scenes represent "images of victory for Hamas, and another humiliating part of the reckless deal."

The return of the displaced began on Monday, the ninth day of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel that went into effect on January 19.

Ben-Gvir added: "This is not what complete victory looks like (as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed), this is what complete surrender looks like."

During the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly spoke of his commitment to achieving what he described as “complete victory.”

Ben-Gvir, who resigned from Netanyahu's government in rejection of the agreement, continued: "We must return to war and destruction!"

Israel has turned Gaza into the world's largest prison, besieging it for the 18th year, and the war of extermination has forced about two million of its citizens, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to flee in tragic conditions with a deliberate severe shortage of food, water and medicine.

Since 7:00 local time (05:00 GMT), thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning on foot from the southern Gaza Strip to the northern and Gaza governorates via the Netzarim axis through the Rashid coastal road.

At 9:00 am, vehicles and cars are scheduled to start returning to the north via Salah El-Din Street, with cars undergoing inspection.

The first phase of the ceasefire agreement will last for 42 days, during which negotiations will take place to start a second and then a third phase, with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States.

With American support, Israel committed genocide in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2023, leaving about 159,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.

On November 21, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

For decades, Israel has occupied lands in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from them and establish an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the borders before the 1967 war.