For nearly 16 months, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have lived in tents, barred from returning to northern Gaza. On Monday, Israel allowed them to walk back.

After a 48-hour delay to Israel’s opening of the Netzarim corridor, which connects northern Gaza to the rest of the enclave, tens of thousands displaced Palestinians are returning home. Drone footage shows the mass crowd of Palestinians travelling north with their belongings after months of exile in temporary camps due to the Israel-Hamas war.