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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Friday, October 10, 2025
Some 200,000 people have returned to northern Gaza since ceasefire began, Hamas-run civil defense says
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Palestinians make their way along Al-Rashid road toward Gaza City from Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says that approximately 200,000 people have returned to the north of the territory since a ceasefire took effect earlier today after the IDF withdrew from much of the territory.
“Approximately 200,000 people returned to northern Gaza today,” says Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, a rescue force operating under Hamas authority.
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