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.

Israelis hugged and took selfies. Many waved U.S. flags. Ku

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