This first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is supposed to end on Saturday, and negotiations to extend it to a second phase are now at a standstill.

But during the pause in fighting over the last month, some 600,000 Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza.

And Newshour videographer Shams Odei in Gaza sent us some of their stories as they seek to pry

normality from destruction.

Gaza City's Shujayiya neighborhood is in ruins, building after building, house after house, crushed and burned.

But its residents resilient.

Among them, 24-year-old Muayyid Harazin.

The path to his apartment paved by rubble, but every day he's making it better.

The only way to enter our house was to get on the destroyed roof of the home next to us

and jump over.

It was difficult to enter the house.

On the first day, I cleaned the stairs and removed the rubble, despite the difficulty of trying

to enter the house in the first place. Like many Gazins, Maed is clearing the rubble from his home with his own bare hands.

When I was cleaning, I was overcome with sadness to think how life was a year and a half ago.

I thank our home truly for staying upright, despite all the attacks it endured.

He too somehow endures. Every day, Muayyad documents his journey of rebuilding to make his home

feel like a home again. When he looks out, there's destruction as far as the eye can see.

But in his videos posted to Instagram, he shares moments that reveal even in war life goes on.

This is very difficult to remove rubble and stone.

This is hard work and labor.

After a difficult day, seeing people's positive comments on my videos really helps me keep going.

So far, he's transformed his bedroom from this to this,

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