Others packed up belongings in squalid tent camps and former schools where they’ve been sheltering in the south.
Fifteen months after fleeing the IDF attacks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from northern Gaza began their long journey back home through the devastated Strip.
CBS News' team in Gaza followed one man among the masses making the trek back home, to see what was left of his life before the war.
The breakthrough preserves a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, which has devastated Gaza and displaced nearly all its residents, paving the way for more hostage-prisoner swaps under an agreement aimed at ending the over-15-month conflict.