With children and pets in their arms and their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs, thousands of displaced Gazans headed home Friday as a four-day Israel-Hamas truce began.
The din of war was replaced by the horns of traffic jams and sirens of ambulances making their way through crowds emerging from hospitals where they had taken refuge.
For nearly seven weeks, Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip had been relentless.
But on Friday morning, no more shots were heard in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Palestinian territory.
