Palestinians Celebrate Victory, ‘Israelis’ Mourn Defeat

By Staff, Agencies

Palestinians in East occupied al-Quds, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip celebrated victory against the ‘Israeli’ occupation regime, as a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Tel Aviv and accepted by Palestinian resistance groups went into effect early Friday.

In Gaza, which had been under heavy ‘Israeli’ bombardment for 11 days, people came out onto the streets and chanted Allahu Akbar, while in East al-Quds and West Bank towns, people set off fireworks.

Mosques in Gaza broadcast celebratory chants through their loudspeakers to celebrate the end to the ‘Israeli’ acts of aggression.

The ‘Israeli’ occupation regime on Thursday declared a unilateral ceasefire starting at 2 a.m. on Friday, and the Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza accepted it.

‘Israel’ began the aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip on May 10, after weeks of violence against Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where ‘Israeli’ occupation forces and settlers attacked Palestinian worshipers, and in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where the regime tried to force Palestinians out of their homes to build more illegal settlements.

The Zionist regime killed at least 232 Palestinians, including 65 children and 39 women, through its aerial bombardment of Gaza. Palestinian resistance groups responded with thousands of significantly improved rockets, which caught ‘Israel’ off guard.

In a commentary, the Times of ‘Israel’ wrote Friday that the Palestinian resistance in Gaza has turned into "a military monster which now aspires to compete with Hezbollah and is managing to embarrass ‘Israel’ time after time."

Zionist settlers near Gaza were told on Thursday night that they can leave their bomb shelters, hours after they were instructed to enter them over rockets fired by resistance groups in Gaza.

The ‘Israeli’ military, however, called on the settlers of communities within four kilometers of the Gaza border to remain within close proximity of a bomb shelter.