Rooms look like fragmented movie sets, with furniture arranged in any intact corner, while the remaining walls are shattered. The Nassars fled their home in Jabaliya refugee camp last year, moving around northern Gaza.

The Nassar family managed to assemble a semblance of their home’s old living room. A sofa and some chairs survived, along with a small table they can gather around to eat.

Hundreds of Palestinians have begun to return to northern Gaza amid the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. In Jabalya, families have improvised shelters among the rubble of destroyed buildings. Camera: MOHAMMED SABER.