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The same tent-filled landscape is visible in other areas that are almost completely in ruins, like Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun in the north, also targets of the aforementioned IDF operation. Sporadic tents in the street and around debris are also visible in the more destroyed parts of Rafah in the south, the focus of an Israeli military offensive that started last year in May.

\"I'm content if they just set up a small tent for me with a bathroom, and that's enough,\" a woman in Jabalia told local journalist Karam Naji, as she sat on the ruins of her home. \"They can put it here. Where else will I go, my child? Where can I go? Even if I have to pick it up stone by stone, I'll remain here.\"

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PHOTO: A woman sits on the rubble of her home after returning to Jabalia, northern Gaza.
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Aside from single tents put up by individual families, other living arrangements are also being set up.

In Gaza City, larger tent camps have appeared in free spaces like parks, school courtyards and even roundabouts. The largest tent camp, in the Al-Nazla neighborhood, has roughly doubled in size since the start of the ceasefire, satellite imagery shows, as more people return and require shelter, finding their homes unlivable.

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PHOTO: A before and after satellite view of a large tent camp in the Al Nazla neighbourhood of Gaza City
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Many of these shelters bear the flags of Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Oman, signaling the tents were possibly provided by those countries. Women are involved in the coordination of shelters and camps to welcome the displaced, according to the Gaza Ministry of Social Development.

In western Gaza City near the densely populated Al Shati refugee camp, new groups of tents have sprung up since the start of the ceasefire. Satellite imagery shows a few tents appearing in the first days of the ceasefire, followed by a large growth after people were allowed back to northern Gaza from the south.

Despite the difficult conditions and the prospect of an uncertain future, the tents that can be seen represent the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians committed to rebuilding their homes and cities in Gaza.

ABC News' Diaa Ostaz and Mer Longo contributed to this story

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