Palestinians return home during cease-fire

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Talks to end the month-old Gaza war started again in Egypt on Monday as a 72-hour truce appeared to be holding between Israel and Hamas. CCTV’s Noor Harazeen reports.

Shops opened and traffic returned to the streets on Monday as Gazans took advantage of a 72-hour ceasefire arrangement. Even banks in the besieged territory opened for a few hours as signs of normal life returned.

Thousands of Gazans, displaced from border areas such as Shujaiyya, Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Rafah, began to return to their neighborhoods to check if their homes were still standing, and to salvage any belongings.

Outside a United Nations-run school, cars and donkey carts waited to take some of the refugees back to homes they fled during the fighting.

Meanwhile, during the Israeli Protective Edge operation on Gaza, business leaders here say Israeli forces targeted 80 percent of Gaza’s factories, putting the economy here in serious danger as 30 percent of Gaza’s goods are provided by local factories.

On Sunday evening, shortly after both Palestinian political factions and Israel agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire, the Israeli warplanes targeted the Habbosh cleaning material factory. Meanwhile, the Israeli military reported some 30 rocket attacks from Gaza on Sunday.

Palestinians return home during cease-fire

Talks to end the month-old Gaza war started again in Egypt on Monday. This as a 72-hour truce appears to be holding between Israel and Hamas. CCTV's Noor Harazeen reports.