Overview
- Thousands of Palestinians traveled back north by truck, cart, donkey and on foot to reenter Gaza City and surrounding areas.
- Israel has pulled forces to the first in a series of withdrawal lines under the recently ratified ceasefire with Hamas, pausing major attacks.
- The UN launched a 60-day operation to bring 190,000 metric tonnes of supplies, with cooking gas entering Gaza for the first time since March alongside tents, food and medicines.
- Damage assessments show 83% of structures in Gaza City and 78% across the Strip are destroyed or damaged, generating roughly 61 million tonnes of debris, about 15% potentially toxic.
- Humanitarian needs remain acute with 67,173 Palestinians reported killed, a UN inquiry characterizing the campaign as genocide, widespread hospital collapse and injuries, devastated agriculture that threatens food supplies, and WHO warnings of famine and severe water contamination.