Tel Aviv | Hours after Israel withdrew its troops from Gaza City in the opening stage of a US-brokered ceasefire, tens of thousands of Palestinians trudged back to sift through bombed out buildings overseen by Hamas security operatives.
The Hamas interior ministry said on Friday (Saturday AEDT) that its police force would deploy across the territory. By Saturday, masked men wearing caps labelled “Internal Security” and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles were inspecting car boots and reasserting their authority, according to witnesses and images posted on social media and filmed by Al Jazeera.
