The Shorbasi family's ceasefire homecoming to their severely damaged house in Gaza City has been marred by tragedy after six-year-old twins mistook unexploded ordnance for a toy and suffered life-threatening injuries in a blast.

The boy, Yahya, and his sister, Nabila, had discovered a round object while playing outside. One touch, and it went off.

"It was like a toy," their grandfather, Tawfiq Shorbasi, said of the unexploded ordnance, after the children were rushed to Shifa hospital on Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are seizing the chance to return to what's left of their homes under the ceasefire that began on October 10.

But the dangers are far from over as people, including children, sift through the rubble for what remains of their belongings, and for bodies unreach

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