Israeli troops have withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor, a military zone cutting off the north of the Gaza Strip from the south.

 

Hundreds of Palestinians in cars and on carts laden with mattresses and other goods began returning to northern Gaza following the troops withdrawal, which is in line with the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement of nineteen January; under which twenty-one Israeli hostages and five hundred and sixty-six Palestinian prisoners have so far been freed.