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Israeli troops have pulled out from parts of Gaza today as a ceasefire went into effect.

NPR's Anas Baba reports crowds of Palestinians who were displaced during the war

are returning to

places that used to be Israeli military zones.

I walk through Gaza City now and it feels like I'm witnessing a place being born again.

On every corner there is reunion, silent in places, dust cover faces pressed together.

The joy of surviving here doesn't erase the grief.

Yes, there is entire blocks now, looks like an open graves, only depreed.

But Gazans here, they don't wait for permission to live.

They carry hope like oxygen.

Gaza is not only rubble.

Gaza is resilience, and what I see today is people

writing themselves back into existence. And as Baba and fear news, Gaza City. Travelers might

see a new video message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Nome at their local airport.

In it, Nome blames Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. NPR's at

Jacqueline Diaz has more. The ongoing government shutdown is causing some delays at airports

across the country, and people, perhaps waiting in line for TSA security a bit longer, might see a

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