GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Gaza ceasefire held on its second day as tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to their neighborhoods Saturday and Israelis cheered Monday's expected release of remaining hostages.
"Gaza is completely destroyed. I have no idea where we should live or where to go," Mahmoud al-Shandoghli said in Gaza City as bulldozers clawed through the wreckage of two years of war. A boy climbed debris to raise the Palestinian flag.
Israelis applauded U.S. President Donald Trump, and some booed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner addressed a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands at a weekly rally in Tel Aviv that many hoped would be the last.

People take part in a rally Saturday in support of hostages kidnapped by Hamas, at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Israelis hugged and took selfies. Many waved U.S. flags. Kushner said they would celebrate Monday, when Israel's military said the 48 hostages still in Gaza would be freed. He also noted the "suffering" in Gaza.
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The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. Israel's government believes about 20 of the hostages remain alive.
Israel's ensuing offensive killed more than 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants but says around half the deaths were women and children.
The war triggered other conflicts in the region, sparked worldwide protests and led to allegations of genocide that Israel denies.

Displaced Palestinians ride on trucks loaded with belongings and wave Egyptian and Palestinian flags as they travel Saturday along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza, central Gaza Strip, moving toward Gaza City.
About 200 U.S. troops arrived in Israel to monitor the ceasefire with Hamas. They will set up a center to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance.
"This great effort will be achieved with no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza," said Adm. Brad Cooper, head of the U.S. military's Central Command. Witkoff, Kushner and Cooper met with senior U.S. and Israeli military officials in Gaza.
The Egyptian presidency in a statement late Saturday said Trump will co-chair a "peace summit" there Monday on Gaza and the wider Middle East. Earlier, France confirmed that President Emmanuel Macron would visit Egypt on Monday.

Displaced Palestinians ride on trucks loaded with belongings Saturday and wave Egyptian and Palestinian flags as they travel along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza, central Gaza Strip, toward Gaza City.
New details from copy of signed deal
A copy of the signed ceasefire says Hamas must share all information related to any bodies of hostages that are not released within the first 72 hours, and that Israel will provide information about the remains of deceased Palestinians from Gaza held in Israel.
The photo of the document was obtained by The Associated Press and its veracity was confirmed by two officials, including one whose country was a signatory. Both requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks. The U.S. did not confirm whether it was authentic.
Hamas and Israel will share the information through a mechanism supported by mediators and the International Committee of the Red Cross. It will also ensure all hostages are exhumed and released.
The agreement says mediators and the ICRC will facilitate the exchange of the hostages and prisoners without public ceremonies or media coverage.
Israel is to free about 250 Palestinians serving prison sentences, as well as about 1,700 people seized from Gaza the past two years and held without charge. The Israel Prison Service said prisoners were transferred to deportation facilities at Ofer and Ktzi'ot prisons, "awaiting instructions from the political echelon."

A displaced Palestinian woman sits on the remains of a destroyed building in the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Tons of desperately needed food
Aid groups urged Israel to reopen more crossings to allow aid into famine-stricken Gaza. A U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet public, said Israel approved expanded aid deliveries starting Sunday.
The World Food Program said it was ready to restore 145 food distribution points. Before Israel sealed off Gaza in March, U.N. agencies provided food at 400 distribution points.
Though the timeline remains unclear, Palestinians will be able to access food at more locations than they could through the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operated four locations after taking over distribution in May.
About 170,000 metric tons of food aid were positioned in neighboring countries awaiting Israeli permission.

Two displaced Palestinians walk past destroyed buildings Saturday in the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
Questions about Gaza's future
Questions remain about who will govern Gaza after Israeli troops gradually pull back and whether Hamas will disarm, as called for in the ceasefire agreement.
Netanyahu, who unilaterally ended the previous ceasefire in March, suggested Israel could resume its offensive if Hamas fails to disarm. He has pledged that the next stage would bring Hamas' disarmament.
The scale of Gaza's destruction will become clearer if the truce holds and the death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are found.

A displaced Palestinian boy carries a wooden board Saturday as he walks along the heavily damaged Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City.
New security arrangements
Trump's initial 20-point plan calls for Israel to maintain an open-ended military presence inside Gaza, along its border with Israel. An international force, largely of troops from Arab and Muslim countries, would be responsible for security inside Gaza, though the timeline is unclear.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Saturday called for the Gaza deployment of an international force authorized by the U.N. Security Council.
The Israeli military said it will continue to operate defensively from the roughly 50% of Gaza it still controls after pulling back to agreed-upon lines.
Photos from 2 years of war between Israel and Hamas bear witness to its horrors

People attend a memorial service marking two years since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel where many of its community members were Killed and abducted, Oct. 7.

People attend a memorial marking two years anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, at the site of the Nova music festival where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted in the assault, near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

People watch a live Gaza broadcast of the release of three Israeli hostages during a gathering at "Hostages Square" in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

People take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in Rehovot, Israel, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Dor Kedmi)

Palestinian militants drive a captured Israeli military vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

People take cover from incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

A photo hangs on a refrigerator next to bullet holes in a house at Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, after the kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Doron and Tami, parents of Israeli reserve soldier captain Omri Yosef David mourn during his funeral in Carmiel, northern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. David, 27, was killed during a military ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli troops walk through the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

People celebrate as a helicopter carrying hostages released from the Gaza Strip lands at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

People flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (Moti Milrod/Haaretz via AP)

Israeli right-wing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

People run for cover during an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, after the Israeli army issued a warning. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

Displaced people flee northern Gaza along the coastal road toward the south, after Israel's military says its expanded operation in Gaza City has begun and warning residents to leave, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

People struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli captive Eli Sharabi who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, stands on a stage escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hossam Azzam holds the body of his child, Amir, who was killed in an Israeli military airstrike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A mother carries her child into a patient treatment tent set up in the yard of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

People carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Naima Abu Ful sits for a photo with her 2-year-old malnourished child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Flames and thick smoke erupt from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

People struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip are seen beyond a sunflower field on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Eliya, holds a photo of her grandfather, Alex Dancyg, who according to the Israeli military died after being kidnapped by the Hamas militant group, during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Balloons are released to mark the second birthday of hostage Kfir Bibas as demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Displaced people return to Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

People look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on residential buildings and a mosque in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israelis embrace each other at the house of Maayan and Yuval Bar killed by Hamas, as Israel marks the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, at the Kibbutz Be'eri, an Israeli communal farm on the Gaza border, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Palestinians bury the bodies of people who were killed in fighting with Israel and returned to Gaza by the Israeli military, during a mass funeral in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of reservist Elkana Vizel during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Vizel, 35, was killed during Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli soldiers ride in armored personnel carriers (APC) near the Israeli-Gaza border as smoke rises in the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

People look at their neighbor's damaged house following an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli Lt. Col. Ido, whose last name was redacted by the military, walks inside a tunnel underneath the UNRWA compound, where the military discovered tunnels in the main headquarters of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)