A generation has been traumatized in Gaza, with one million children requiring mental health and psychosocial support, says a UN official.

Israel has started to release 90 Palestinian ... "This is a moment of tremendous hope," humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said. 'Joy mixed with pain' Across Gaza, there was relief and grief.

Israel’s government still needs to formally ... survivors,” U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said in a statement. “The stakes could not be higher.”

Thousands of Gazans have begun to travel back to the homes they evacuated earlier in the war. View on euronews

Palestinians returning to parts of the enclave have been picking their way through vast piles of rubble and trying to salvage what they can.

The first three Israeli hostages released from Gaza have been handed over in a test of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Asharq Al Awsat The war in Gaza has seen children killed, starved, frozen to death, orphaned and separated from their families, the UN humanitarian chief says. “A generation has been traumatized,” Tom Fletcher told a UN Security Council meeting called by Russia on Thursday about the war's impact on Gaza's youngest residents.

The UN’s leading humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, has urged US President Donald Trump to remain engaged in the world. The UN's Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator,

The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war.

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners early on Monday as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, just hours after three Israeli hostages were returned to Israel. The ceasefire, which began at 11:15 a.

The first three released hostages, Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher, returned home to Israel after Hamas fighters handed them over to the Red Cross in a bustling square in Gaza City, surrounded by gunmen in fatigues and balaclavas.

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.