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Hamas: Ceasefire is a turning point in the fight against Israel

January 16, 2025 at 9:06 am

Palestinians gathered in the garden of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza to celebrate after US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of hostage deal, on January 15, 2025 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza [Ashraf Amra – Anadolu Agency]

Hamas described the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which is expected to come into effect on Sunday, as a “turning point in the fight against the Israeli occupation.”

The movement said in a statement: “The ceasefire agreement is the fruit of the legendary steadfastness of our great Palestinian people and our valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip, over more than 15 months.”

“The agreement to stop the aggression on Gaza is an achievement for our people, our resistance, our nation, and the free people of the world, and it is a turning point in our fight against the enemy, on the path to achieving our people’s goals of liberation and return,” it added.

Hamas noted that “this agreement comes as part of our responsibility towards our patient steadfast people in the honourable Gaza Strip, to stop the Zionist aggression against them, and put an end to the bloodshed, massacres and genocidal war to which they are being subjected.”

Yesterday evening, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced that the mediators had reached a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, noting that it would begin to be implemented on Sunday.

The first phase of the agreement will last 42 days and includes the release of 33 Israeli captives in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners.

The deal comes 467 days after Israel launched its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, during which it has killed or maimed over 157,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women. Some 11,000 others are missing, presumed dead under the rubble.

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