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We are finally in our home. There is no home left, just rubble, but it's our home,
We're trying to reach a million people within the shortest possible time,
said its deputy executive director, Carl Skau All the prisoners being released today feel like family to us. They are part of us, even if they're not blood relatives,
Amanda Abu Sharkh, 23, told AFP More families are waiting anxiously for their loved ones to come home,
said International Committee of the Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric, calling on all sides to "adhere to their commitments to ensure the next operations can take place safely". It is imperative that this ceasefire removes the significant security and political obstacles to delivering aid,
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said I’m happy to report that they are in stable condition. That allows us and them to focus on what is the most important thing for now – reuniting with the families.”
A member of the hospital staff, Professor Itai Pessach, said The vast majority of shelters are overcrowded and many are simply living out in the open or in makeshift structures,
said Juliette Touma, communications director for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa Hostages starting to come out today! Three wonderful young women will be first,
By God, the feelings are mixed,
said Helen Jabri, 41, in a phone interview from a shelter in Khan Younis in southern Gaza It scares me to hope,
Yarden's cousin Eylon Keshet said, on Saturday night, on what would be Kfir's second birthday Our hearts are aching for the people we have lost,
I just want to go to the city and smell its air,
We are getting closer to the day when we might see my grandfather,
It is only because these were my people I was able to keep going,
This is the deal for hope, this is the deal for the future, this is a deal for all of us collectively,
I'm not letting myself truly imagine it, because when I start to imagine it I feel like my stomach turning,
After 471 days Emily is finally home, ... for too many other families the impossible wait continues."
said her mother Mandy Damari, As coordinated by the parties to the agreement and the mediators, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday,
Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Without a fundamental settlement of the two sides' historical disputes and the implementation of the two-state solution, any cease-fire could be a pause in the next conflict,
The sound of shelling and explosions didn't stop,
said Ahmed Matter, a Gaza resident
