The Yemeni recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, activist Tawakkol Karman, announced on Friday: “The Palestinians have achieved a victory and a major global breakthrough.”
Karman wrote in a post on her Facebook page: “The Palestinians have achieved a victory and a major global breakthrough for their cause…This is a big and significant victory that will make a difference.”
She added: “But there are those who are very uneasy about this victory. Among them is the so-called axis of resistance, headed by the Mullahs of Qom (referring to Iran) and Hassan Nasrallah (leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah), and the opposite axis of normalisation, led by the rulers of Abu Dhabi.”
On Friday at dawn, a ceasefire came into effect between the Palestinian factions and Israel, following 11 days of bombings in Gaza.
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Since 13 April, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has exploded following brutal attacks carried out by the Israeli police and settlers in occupied Jerusalem, particularly against Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, in an attempt to evict 12 Palestinian families from their homes to be handed over to settlers.
Tensions in the Gaza Strip have dramatically escalated after Israel launched a massive military operation on 10 May, resulting in massacres and widespread destruction of buildings and infrastructure.
The brutal Israeli aggression against Palestinian Authority-controlled territories and Arab towns in Israel has resulted in the deaths of 274 people, including 70 children, 40 women and 17 elderly people. More than 8,900 have been injured, 90 of whom are in critical condition.