Walid Abu Libdeh and his daughter returned to their home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, only to find it had been ruined beyond recognition.

Rafah was home to over a million Palestinians displaced from the Israel-Hamas war. Now, Palestinians in Gaza wade through rubble to see what remains.

Footage from a drive from Rafah to Khan Younis shows the scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip as Palestinians confront an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

While some Palestinians were able to dig up miscellaneous items deep under the rubble, many felt hopeless after dreaming about the possibility of returning to their homes and repairing or rebuilding them.

Aid trucks drove through the rubble in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah on Wednesday, while displaced Palestinians—many of them children—chased after the vehicles, desperately trying to grab aid boxes off the moving trucks.

Leila and Ibrahim el Arja fled their home in Rafah, southern Gaza, in May last year. This week they returned, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but what they found only added to their devastation.

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Israel has confirmed that it will maintain control over the Rafah border crossing, the key passage between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

An NBC News crew returned to Rafah's Al-Najjar Hospital months after Israel's ground offensive forced the hospital to close and thousands to evacuate. Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals in Gaza,

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour through mountains of rubble looking for bodies of those killed by Israeli bombardments during the 15-month war.