The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel on Wednesday announced that they have agreed to a ceasefire to pause the 15-month war.
Celebrations break out in in Gaza following reports that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal that would also see the return of captives.
Israeli deadly and devastating aggression against the Gaza Strip has resulted in martyrdom of thousands of innocent Gaza civilians most of them women and children and the destruction of a major part of Gaza’s neighborhoods, Tasnim News Agency reported.
Meantime, Hamas together with people of Gaza have shown their powerful resolve to confront Israel’s genocide acts and atrocities across the Gaza Strip and defend the rights of Palestinian people and prisoners.
The Gaza deal promises the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in phases and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and it will allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes.
It also would flood badly needed humanitarian aid into a territory ravaged by 15 months of war.
Qatar prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said the ceasefire would go into effect on Sunday.
He made the announcement in Doha, the site of weeks of painstaking negotiations.
In a statement after the announcement of the deal, Hamas said its ceasefire deal with Israel to halt the war in Gaza was the result of the “steadfastness” of the Palestinian people and its own “resistance”.
“The ceasefire agreement is a result of the legendary steadfastness of our great Palestinian people and our valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip for over 15 months,” the resistance movement said, adding that it paved “the way towards the realisation of our people’s aspirations for liberation and return”.
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