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A woman holding a certificate with hebrew writing on it.
(Reuters: Hamas Military Wing/Handout)

Trucks drive down a dusty street as people walk toward them
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
Trucks with white cargo on the back drive down a dusty street with men wearing black standing on the back of the trucks
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
A truck carrying boxes is approached by people with one large box ripped open on the back trailer
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
A group of peope gather in a dusty street taking white bags and moving away
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
Two children duck out the way of a truck driving down a road
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)

  • Three Israeli hostages have been released and reunited with their families in Tel Aviv
  • In exchange, 90 Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli jails in the West Bank
  • The UN says 630 aid trucks have entered Gaza in-line with the ceasefire agreement
  • A renewed effort has been launched to find some 10,000 people understood to be buried under the rubble in Gaza

Damaged concrete building lay in ruins as people walk along a dirt road next to them
(Reuters: Hatem Khaled)

  • Broke with much of the international community and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem
  • Oversaw landmark normalisation deals between Israel and  Bahrain, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates
  • Recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, again going against much of the world and numerous UN resolutions

A drone view shows Palestinians walking past the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
A drone view shows Palestinians walking past the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)
A drone view shows Palestinians walking past the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes
(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)

Buildings destroyed during the war lie in ruin.
(Reuters: Hatem Khaled)

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Three men dressed in black holding guns.
(Reuters: Dawoud Abu Alkas)
An older man walks past two police guards.
(Reuters: Dawoud Abu Alkas)
Two men dressed in black holding guns.
(Reuters: Dawoud Abu Alkas)

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A drone shot of destroyed buildings.
(Reuters: Mahmoud Al-Basos)
A drone shot of destroyed buildings.
(Reuters: Mahmoud Al-Basos)

A girl in a green jumper taking a selfie with a woman in glasses.
Emily Damari was reuinted with her mother. (Supplied: The Damari Family)

Displaced Palestinians walking back to their homes, hoping to find them still standing. (AP)

Streets are laced with piles of rubbish and debris.  (Reuters: Dawoud Abu Alkas)

Three women hold brown bags with arabic writing on them.
(Reuters: Hamas Military Wing/Handout)

A woman holding a certificate with Hebrew writing.
(Reuters: Hamas Military Wing/Handout)

  • Nine ill and wounded hostages out of those 33 to be released by Hamas will be swapped for 110 Palestinian prisoners with life sentences.
  • Male hostages aged over 50 will be exchanged by Hamas at differing ratios of Palestinian prisoners (1:3 for life sentences / 1:27 for other sentences)

A woman in a floral crown holding a child.
Nidaa Zaghebi embraces her daughter, Cilla (Reuters: Raneen Sawafta)
Nidaa Zaghebi embraces her mother-in-law and son
Nidaa Zaghebi embraces her mother-in-law and son (Reuters: Raneen Sawafta)
A person puts a keffiyeh on freed Palestinian prisoner Nidaa Zaghebi 
A person puts a keffiyeh on Nidaa Zaghebi  (Reuters: Raneen Sawafta)