Gaza City residents set to return as Israel bombs before ceasefire starts

Al-Ahli Hospital tells Al Jazeera 7 bodies recovered aft Israeli onslaught helicopters swooped connected eastbound of Gaza City.

Palestinian families person begun returning to Gaza City arsenic Israel continued deadly attacks connected the enclave contempt signing the archetypal signifier of a ceasefire deal paving the mode for warring to halt successful the adjacent 24 hours.

As displaced families from the confederate parts of the enclave moved northbound connected Friday, Israel launched a deadly onslaught from helicopters connected a tract eastbound of Gaza City and conducted airstrikes successful the confederate Khan Younis area, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

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Sources astatine Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital confirmed to Al Jazeera that the bodies of 7 radical had been recovered from respective areas successful Gaza City since Friday morning.

There were nary archetypal reports of casualties successful the attacks connected Khan Younis, which besides included rounds of shelling and dense vessel occurrence northbound of the city, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The attacks are the archetypal to beryllium reported successful Gaza since Israel’s authorities ratified the archetypal signifier of a ceasefire woody with Hamas precocious Thursday night.

The attacks took spot arsenic Al Jazeera’s squad connected the crushed reported Israel had started to pull its troops back down the enactment agreed nether the Gaza deal.

“What is arguable is that determination has been precocious enactment of Israeli drones, combatant jets and adjacent warships from the aboriginal hours of this morning,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from al-Nuseirat.

Abu Azzoum said families had started moving towards the northbound of the Strip, but were inactive waiting to participate the areas successful the Netzarim Corridor, wherever the Israeli service utilized to operate.

“They are waiting for the past Israeli vessel to permission the portion to participate the territory,” helium said.

Gaza’s civilian defence warned radical to support distant from the borderline areas of Gaza City until the authoritative announcement of the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Earlier, Israel’s government approved “phase one” of a ceasefire agreement, which volition spot captives exchanged and Israel retreat from parts of Gaza, but details of however it fits into a wider program to bring lasting peace, if astatine all, stay unclear.

Khalil al-Hayya, the caput of Hamas’s negotiating team, said the radical has received guarantees from the US and mediators that an statement connected a archetypal signifier of the ceasefire statement means the warfare successful Gaza “has ended completely”.

The Israeli government’s ratification of the bid plan, which was confirmed successful the aboriginal hours of Friday morning, paves the mode for warring successful Gaza to stop within 24 hours, portion Hamas has been fixed a 72-hour timeline to escaped Israeli captives.

Palestine’s Quds News Network reported that Gaza residents who near the Strip from Egypt volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality location done the Rafah crossing for the archetypal clip since October 7, 2023. Gaza residents volition besides beryllium allowed to exit to Egypt.

Around 600 assistance trucks volition beryllium allowed to participate Gaza daily, with postulation circulating freely from the southbound to the northbound of the Gaza Strip connected Salah al-Din and Rashid roads.