Men of the Salmi family salvage some belongings from the rubble of their home in the Gaza City district of Zeitoun. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Photograph: LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/AP (Photo from The Guardian)Palestinians Reel At War's Toll -- Yahoo News/Reuters
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians took stock Monday of the devastation from a three-week war in the Gaza Strip as a ceasefire took hold and Israeli forces pressed on with their gradual withdrawal from the Hamas-ruled territory.
A spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, his face masked by a checkered Arab scarf, vowed it would replenish its arsenal of rockets and other weapons, in defiance of any Israeli or international efforts to cut off smuggling routes.
Bulldozers cleared rubble from streets and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said the total repair bill would be at least $1.9 billion.
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More News On The Israel Hamas War
Israel to pull out of Gaza by Obama inauguration -- Yahoo News/AP
Israel-Hamas truce holds on Gaza Strip -- Yahoo News/AFP
Israel to Pull Out of Gaza by Inauguration -- Time Magazine
Israel says it plans swift Gaza withdrawal -- CNN
Israel Continues Gaza Withdrawal as Cease-Fire Holds -- New York Times
Israel and Hamas Enact Cease-Fires -- Wall Street Journal
Israel Begins Pullout; Gazans Survey Debris -- Washington Post
Israeli Troops Begin Leaving Gaza -- Washington Times/Associated Press
Egypt Hosts Gaza Ceasefire Meeting -- Voice of America
Hamas Agrees to Cease-fire -- Washington Times
Rebuilding Begins Upon a Wobbly Truce -- New York Times
Shocked and Grieving Gazans Find Bodies Under the Rubble of Homes -- NY Times
Gaza Cease-fire lets Palestinians Cautiously Recover Bodies -- LA Times
Inside Gaza: Israeli troops have vanished but the damage is plain to see -- The Guardian
Scale of Gaza Damage Emerging as Israel Pulls Out -- The Times
Scale of Gaza Destruction Emerges -- BBC News
Parsing Gains of Gaza War -- New York Times
Turkey says it would mediate between Palestinians -- International Herald Tribune
Hamas vows to rearm after Gaza war -- Reuters
Shin Bet Chief: Hamas Will Resume Arms Smuggling To Gaza Within A Few Months -- Haaretz
Abbas calls for Palestinian unity government, elections - -AFP
In pictures: Gaza ceasefire -- BBC
Opinions And Commentaries
Israel Hopes Iran and Hezbollah Get Message -- Los Angeles Times
There are no victors in the war in Gaza - only thousands of losers -- Times Online
The Fight for Credit in Gaza Begins -- New Republic
The Specious and the Specific -- Washington Times opinion
The Ball Is Now in Hamas' Court -- Haaretz
The Lies of Gaza -- New York Post
Gaza's Five Rings of Fire --Middle East Times
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