As the long-awaited ceasefire comes into effect, here’s a look – in 6 graphics – at what Gaza is like after 15 months of war.

As a ceasefire brought calm to Gaza’s ruined cities, Hamas was quick to emerge from hiding. The militant group has not only survived 15 months of war with Israel — among the deadliest and most destructive in recent memory — but it remains firmly in control of the coastal territory that now resembles an apocalyptic wasteland.

Locals are slowly returning home to start the rebuilding process after 15 months of war as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas remains in place.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, as a senior U.N. official said so far there had been no apparent law-and-order issues.

Around 280 trucks delivered additional humanitarian aid and fuel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip so far on Tuesday, the third day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Trucks first enter the Palestinian territory via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

More than 1,500 trucks with humanitarian aid have entered the Gaza Strip in the first two days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

A large number of displaced residents from Gaza Strip have begun returning to their homeland after the first stage of Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement came into effect in Gaza on Sunday. One of the largest refugee camps in the region,

When a ceasefire was declared on Sunday in Gaza many displaced Palestinians were looking forward to returning home.

After a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced, buildings reduced to rubble were all that was left for thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza.