TEL AVIV, Israel — Thousands of people traveled by foot toward Gaza City on Saturday as a ceasefire held overnight, but early accounts described devastation across the area.

“The scale of destruction is really staggering,” said Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the United Nations’ humanitarian office, who visited the city this past week. “We have a lot of people moving north to Gaza City and arriving to find the ruins where their homes used to be, so there is a lot of conflicted emotion.”

Mediators hope the ceasefire, which began at noon Friday, will lead to the end of two years of war as the first phase of a 20-point peace plan presented in September by President Donald Trump.

A summit in support of the peace proposal will be held Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, according to a statem

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