Ismael Mohammed’s family, who were displaced to the southern part of Gaza at Israel’s order during the war, eats lunch provided by a charity inside their tent, before returning to their destroyed house in northern Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip January 25, 2025. After the ceasefire took effect, hundreds of thousands of people left the temporary shelters they had crowded into across the south and trekked back north, the Mohammed family had learned from relatives that their home had been destroyed in an air strike but they had been ready to return as soon as the ceasefire was agreed. “Shrapnel passed by the children while they were sleeping here. It went through the cover while I was here in the tent. The children were sick from fear,” said Badreya, 42, Ismael’s wife.REUTERS/Ramadan Abed