STORY: Inside Gaza: Displaced Gazans try to return home amid truce deal
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 24, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 25, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:57
LOCATION: Gaza
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST: 
1. various of displaced people returning to the Gaza Strip
2. various of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Rafah crossing
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): Displaced Gazan
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): Displaced Gazan

STORYLINE:

As the first temporary humanitarian truce between Hamas and Israel took effect Friday in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza have been assisted with food, water, medical supplies and other essential humanitarian items.

According to a spokesman for the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, 150 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had entered Gaza, including four carrying cooking gas and three carrying fuel.

In addition, Palestinian ambulances have crossed the Rafah crossing to the Egyptian side to transport the wounded and the sick for treatment. Palestinians stranded in Egypt also began returning to Gaza.

Palestinian authorities have called for the displaced to return to their homes in the northern strip, but Israel had warned that it would prohibit them from moving northward during the truce.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): Displaced Gazan
"I had been living in Gaza before I was displaced to the central region. I wanted to go back to my house and check it.
A safe corridor should be opened from the north of the Gaza Strip to its south. We will not give up our land. We will enter our homes against Israel's will. We hope for the intervention of mediators to respect the truce."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): Displaced Gazan
"I am returning to check on my home, my family, and my children. I am displaced here with my children, and although I wish to return home, I see people attempting to go back but encountering gunfire and the positioning of Israeli tanks there."

Palestinian medical and security sources said that at least two Palestinians were killed and others wounded while trying to return to their homes, which were not allowed by the Israeli army.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Gaza.
(XHTV)