Gaza Resisted....Gaza Victorious
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And Gaza did it.
51 days of legendary steadfastness, 1275 hours of heroic resistance and unlimited tales of blood mingled with pride taught the world about Gaza's victory.
26, August, 2014: Gaza wrote its victory by the scattered remains of children at its beach, by the cries of mothers that reached the skies, by the rockets that rained all over the Holy Land, by a resistance that told the enemies and some of the supposed friends: Palestine is ours.
A Gaza ceasefire between the Zionist entity and the Palestinians started at 7:00 pm Tuesday and provides for an immediate opening of "Israeli" border crossings to aid and reconstruction supplies, an Egyptian foreign ministry statement said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and an unnamed "Israeli" official have also confirmed the acceptance of the Egyptian truce proposal.
Alongside a comprehensive ceasefire, the two sides agreed to the "simultaneous opening of the border crossings between "Israel" and Gaza to enable the rapid entry of humanitarian aid and relief and reconstruction supplies," the statement said.
The Egyptian-brokered deal also provides for the immediate extension to six nautical miles off the Gaza coast of the limit imposed by the Zionist entity on the territory's fishermen.
It foresees "continuation of indirect negotiations between the two sides on other matters within one month of the ceasefire taking effect."
Abbas announced the truce during a speech in Ramallah.
"We announce the Palestinian leadership's agreement to Egypt's call for a comprehensive and lasting truce, beginning at 7:00 pm [1600 GMT] today," he said in a televised address at the start of a leadership meeting in the West Bank city.
Immediately after the announcement, Gazans flooded the strips' streets and "celebrated victory and the fulfillment of the Palestinian people's demands."
In a news conference at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri announced victory and congratulated the Palestinian people and the Arab nation for the victory which he said the Palestinian resistance achieved.
"The Hamas movement won't abandon the Palestinian people after the battle came to an end."
Several senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders appeared in public shortly after the truce took hold.
Among them was Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior member of the Hamas political wing, and senior Islamic Jihad official Mohammad al-Hindi, who gave a rousing victory speech to thousands of people gathered in a square in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood.
"We're going to build our port and our airport, and if they attack our port, we will attack theirs and if they attack our airport, we will attack theirs - again," Zahar told the crowd.
Speaking from Beirut, the leader of Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Shalah, congratulated the Palestinians on their "miraculous victory."
"It is your day to celebrate Gaza," Shalah told reporters during a press conference, although he warned that the war with "Israel' was far from over.
"There are no assurances with regards to the continuity of the cease-fire, despite a notable Egyptian effort in following up," he said, warning that past experiences had made the resistance wary of a possible breach.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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