One week into the ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians are returning to destroyed homes and trying to find shelter.
The Abu Dalfa family are standing in the middle of Sheikh Radwan, a formerly busy part of Gaza City filled with apartments and families.
Now it's dust and ruins.
Homes, green spaces and the local pool are all barely recognisable after being pounded relentlessly by Israeli missiles and shells.
The Abu Dalfa family, which fled south as Israeli troops invaded Gaza City, has just returned to find their home destroyed.
They were among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive into Gaza City, Hamas's ''main stronghold".
"There is no other place. There are no shelters," father Hamdi Abu Dalfa told the ABC.
"They promised to bring us tents but they didn't. They promised to bring us a lot of things and we didn't get anything, so where will we go?
"There are no other places."
Two of Hamdi's sons were killed by Israeli bombs during the war.
He is now digging through the rubble with his hands, trying to recover belongings.
"Every person wants to take refuge [somewhere] so I took refuge in my house," he said.
"It's better than sitting in places where I can't live."
Hamdi's wife Samar is pulling blankets and pillows out from under layers of concrete.
Memories and mementos are buried here as well.
I miss every corner of the house, everything," she said.
"My bed, my children — I lost two boys.
"I long to pull out my son's blanket — because it still has his smell — to remember him."
Samar is especially trying to find things that belonged to her sons.
Returning to the home has stirred painful memories of their childhood.
"I remembered Ahmad, I remembered Mustafa, I remembered," she said.
"Every time we find something of theirs, I tell them, 'Give it to me.' Even their certificates, I took them and held onto them.
"Their pictures, everything I found, I took. Even though it's ripped and destroyed, I want to keep it as a memory of my children and of my home as well."
The couple's 10-year-old daughter Yusra is also sifting through the wreckage, trying to find her things.
"We came back and found the house bombed," she said.
"I was sitting, looking for my books and pencils and my stuff [because] … it's been two years since I've been to school.
"The thing I miss the most in the house is my bedroom and my toys, my stuff, and my bed.
Yusra is watching her parents try to make a shelter in the collapsed building.
Her father says the tents are too weak to withstand wind and rain.
"We'll make a good tent so we can sit in it and be stable," she said.
"It was my wish to find the house OK and standing but we found it collapsed."
Two-thirds of Gaza destroyed or damaged
The United Nations says there are tens of millions of tonnes of rubble in Gaza, much of it contaminated by unexploded ordinance and asbestos.
Also under the rubble lie thousands of unrecovered bodies.
The UN's Satellite Centre said a recent analysis, to September 6, showed two-thirds of Gaza's buildings were destroyed or damaged.
"Those 66 per cent of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total. This includes 52,564 structures that have been destroyed, 18,913 severely damaged, 35,591 possibly damaged structures and 56,710 moderately affected," it said in a statement.
"The most impacted region overall is the Gaza governorate, with 46,370 structures impacted. Gaza City has been notably affected, with 36,611 structures damaged, of which 8,578 are totally destroyed."
Israel continued its heavy bombing of Gaza City for another month after that analysis, meaning many more buildings have been damaged there.
Israeli fire destroyed much of Gaza's critical infrastructure, including for electricity, water and sanitation.
Now winter is coming, bringing rain and cold, and turning Gaza's dust to mud.
These families will likely spend the cold months in the ruins.
"My life was beautiful, thank God. I wasn't lacking anything and my children were around me and my husband," Samar Abu Dalfa said.
"Now it's destroyed and now we're dispersed. My husband's mind is in one place and I'm in another."
Credits
Reporting: Middle East correspondent Eric Tlozek
Photography and drone footage: ABC staff in Gaza
Digital Production: Basel Hindeleh
Satellite imagery: Planet Labs Inc and Google Earth/Airbus
