My children ask me every day where daddy is’ - SPECIAL REPORT: Bel Trew in Jerusalem and Nedal Hamdouna in Gaza speak to families searching through photographs of thousands of unidentified bodies and

As the long-awaited ceasefire comes into effect, here’s a look – in 6 graphics – at what Gaza is like after 15 months of war.

World / The ceasefire was cause for jubilation and relief. But the nightmare of the genocide lingers on. Eman Alhaj Ali Finally, it has happened. After 15 months of horror, on the morning of Sunday, January 19,

Hamas gunmen are guarding aid convoys in Gaza, and its police patrol city streets, sending a clear message: Hamas remains in charge.

As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the truce as only the first step on a long road to recovery.

For all the military might Israel deployed in Gaza, it failed to remove Hamas from power, one of its central war aims.

The ceasefire came into effect Sunday after an initial three-hour delay, during which almost 20 more Palestinians were killed, according to medics in the decimated Palestinian territory. Under the terms of the deal,

It took us a few minutes to accept that this pile of rubble was our home,” said Islam Dahliz, whose family was ordered by Israeli forces to evacuate Rafah in May.

In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza reduces the risks to Israel's public finances and could improve its sovereign credit rating, the major credit rating agencies said on Tuesday.

Celebrations erupted across the war-ravaged territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes despite the delay.