The images from the territory, largely sealed off to journalists and others, have helped relief agencies and experts make estimates regarding the extent of the damage.

Supply chains have had to deal with higher shipping costs, product delivery delays, and increased carbon emissions as a result of this diversion. The Gaza ceasefire gave some hope that the disruption would finally end. But shipping lines will not hurry back to the region until long-term security is guaranteed.

In one instance, a man rowed north in a canoe with his family along the Mediterranean coast ... walked for eight hours from Nuseirat to Gaza City on a potholed road with his six children ...

WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP ... On one side was the Mediterranean Sea; on the other stretched a landscape of destroyed buildings and bulldozed land left behind by withdrawing Israeli forces.

27 (UPI) --Thousands of displaced Palestinians began streaming across Gaza's Netzarim Corridor ... much of it hugging the coast of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Advertisement Israeli forces ...