With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

At an Israel Defense Forces outpost near Shuja’iyya in northern Gaza, the silence is noticeable in the rubble near the controversial 'yelllow line.'

Israel's military gave CBS News a rare look deep inside Gaza, where many questions still hang over the ruins of war and the future of 2 million Palestinians.

Thousands of boxes filled with shelter items and food are sitting idle in Jordan, Egypt and Israel, humanitarian agencies say, warning that very little aid is making its way into Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel began.

USAID Office of the Inspector General is pursuing allegations that U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to the Gaza Strip were diverted to Hamas terrorists in the enclave.

Officials at Gaza’s largest hospital say 15 more Palestinian bodies have been returned from Israel. This follows last month’s ceasefire agreement.

The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones. Around them, what was once a dense, urban neighborhood has been blown up, knocked down or otherwise crushed into debris and dust.

NBC News’ Matt Bradley reports from inside Gaza, where destruction stretches for miles in one of the war’s fiercest battlegrounds. In the same area, Hamas recently handed over the remains of the last