Ninety percent of residents evacuated from the Gaza Envelope after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre have returned home, according to new figures released on Wednesday by the Tekuma Authority.

The government body, established after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack to oversee the rehabilitation of the border area, said that at least some residents have returned to 42 of the 47 evacuated communities.

In addition, more than 2,500 new residents have moved to the Western Negev since Oct. 7, most of them to the city of Sderot, the Tekuma Authority said.

Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, one of the closest communities to Gaza, has seen 88% of its residents return along with six new families, while Kibbutz Re’im reported a 95% return rate and 10 new families. Similar trends were reported in Kibbutz Sufa, Nir Yitzhak, Ni

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