Shejaiya, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military brought our CBS News team for a rare look deep inside the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, to the Shejaiya neighborhood in the Palestinian territory's former de-facto capital, Gaza City.

Shejaiya saw extremely fierce fighting before the U.S.-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas brought a fragile ceasefire to Gaza. The neighborhood is now a scene of utter destruction.

The Israel Defense Forces says the bodies of several deceased hostages — 21 of whom have now been returned from Gaza — were found amid the rubble in Shejaiya, including Israeli American IDF soldier Itay Chen, whose remains were brought back to Israel on Tuesday night .

The IDF brought CBS News to a location within a few hundred yards of the "yellow line," the new boundar

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