Around 90% of the two million population of Gaza were displaced by the fighting and have returned – mostly on foot – to find fields of rubble where their homes once stood.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the war. The Israeli military has said it will continue to operate defensively from the roughly 50% of Gaza it still controls after pulling back to agreed-upon lines.
In a televised statement on Friday Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the next stages would see Hamas disarm and Gaza demilitarised, but warned “if this is achieved the easy way, so be it, if not, it will be achieved the hard way”.
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