Displaced Palestinians upbeat, prepare to return home

Displaced Palestinian camp in Gaza 2

A man celebrates with fireworks at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday [Eyad Baba/AFP]

Displaced Palestinians are upbeat and prepared to return and rebuild home on the rubble as the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire is set to take effect Sunday.

The displaced in Gaza are packing what’s left of their belongings in the hope of returning to their neighbourhoods when the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins at 08:30am local time (06:30 GMT) today, Aljazeera reports.

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“We will rebuild Gaza after the war,” they maintained.

However, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the truce could be temporary, saying he has the backing of the current and incoming US administrations to resume fighting in Gaza if negotiations for a second phase do not go according to plan.

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