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To find the place where he used to live, Noor Abed needed GPS.
As he pedaled north on his bicycle along the coastal highway from the town in central Gaza where he had taken refuge, not even the ruins of familiar buildings could guide him. What was once his neighborhood in Gaza City is now a row of sand dunes.
“There are no conditions for life here,” Abed, 35, told CNN. “No water, no electricity, no schools, and almost no phone coverage.”
The former software engineer is living in a tent he set up in the courtyard of Al-Azhar University, whose ruined campus has become a refugee center. Not all his family returned with him, worried that the nascent ceasefire may not hold.
“We are waiting to be sure the war has truly ended before bringing everyone back,” he said. The men in his family are preparing a place to live for others, as bulldozers begin clearing some of the roads. “Life is beginning to return,” he said. “Somewhat.”
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Adding to the overall uncertainty in Gaza are complex questions about what security might look like in the future, as a mixture of what’s left of Hamas and rival clans, gangs and militias vie for power. For many Palestinians in Gaza, however, their most immediate needs – food, shelter, water – remain the most pressing.
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To paint this picture of life in Gaza in the days after the ceasefire brokered by the Trump administration and Arab mediators, CNN spoke to residents in the enclave, consulted Palestinian and Israeli officials and analyzed social media footage. A review of reports by the United Nations and other agencies helped provide context around the scale of the destruction and the efforts and costs required to rebuild. Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to prevent CNN and other international media organizations from reporting independently in Gaza, and we rely on freelance journalists based there.
On October 7, 2023, militants led by Hamas stormed into Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping about another 250 in a coordinated attack that blindsided the country. Israel’s ferocious response followed. Israel’s offensives displaced most of Gaza’s population, forcing more than two million people to run for safety to the shifting patches of land the Israeli military described as humanitarian zones.
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