GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians loaded cars, carts and bicycles with belongings and made their way back to their neighborhoods on Saturday, weaving through streets shrouded in dust as bulldozers began to claw through the wreckage of two years of bombardment.

Aid groups were preparing to scale up relief work, one of the many challenges ahead as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its second day.

“When people get there, they’re going to find rubble. They’ll find that their homes and their neighborhoods have been reduced to dust,” UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram told The Associated Press on Friday.

As the ceasefire appears to hold, her organization and its partners are urging Israel to reopen more crossings and allow aid to flow into Gaza m

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