After 15 months of war, a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect Sunday morning, paving the way for a dramatic day that saw Hamas free the first of 33 Israeli hostages.
The skies over Gaza finally went quiet for the first time in 14 months Sunday as a fragile ceasefire took hold.
The whine of Israeli drones — the soundtrack of more than a year of war — receded. Hamas fighters emerged into the daylight, wearing masks and wielding guns atop pickup trucks, to the cheers of civilians.
Displaced Gazans marched in the thousands down dusty roads from makeshift shelters to the hometowns they had fled as the Israeli army advanced.
Joy mingled with grief as Gazans began to confront the scale of the loss. The bodies of loved ones still buried under the debris. Whole communities flattened.
And scars, visible and not, from the war’s human toll: More than 46,900 dead and 110,750 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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