UPDATE: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians rush to the streets of cities and towns throughout Palestine in celebration of the ‘victory of the resistance’.
#Watch| Hundreds of citizens flock to the streets of Ramallah to celebrate the victory of Gaza. #GazaVictory #GazaCeaseFire pic.twitter.com/MAOrn1YbNJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 20, 2021
After 12 days of constant Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government has decided to cease its military operations starting at 2 AM Palestine time.
A moment of reflection following Israel's destruction of the Al-Jawhara tower in besieged Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, @PalestineChron) pic.twitter.com/reIeOsFZjr
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 20, 2021
The decision was the outcome of a vote where the majority of Israeli ministers finally accepted mediation efforts to stop the escalation which has led to the death of 231 Palestinians, and 12 Israelis. The Palestinian deaths include 65 children and 36 women. Moreover, 1,710 Palestinians were also wounded. Two young Israelis were also among those who were killed by Palestinian rockets fired by resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli government’s decision to cease fire from one side was an expression of its rejection of any larger agreement that would link the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah to the war on Gaza,“ Palestinian journalist and editor of The Palestine Chronicle Ramzy Baroud said.
BREAKING | #Israeli Artillery, #Airstrikes Kill Three #Palestinians in #Gaza.
WAFA: Three Palestinians were announced dead and others injured on Thursday evening in a series of Israeli artillery and airstrikes that hit Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip. #Gaza_Under_Attack pic.twitter.com/dzvUWtK9dn— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 20, 2021
“From the very start, Palestinians wanted to send a message of unity that their various forms of resistance – in Gaza, in East Jerusalem and throughout Palestine, including historic Palestine, today’s Israel- are all one and the same,” Baroud added, arguing that the nature of Israel’s ceasefire declaration, however, represents Israel’s insistence on delinking the Palestinian struggle and to present its war on Gaza as if an isolated conflict pertaining to its security.
Little remain from al-Jawhara tower in #Gaza following an #Israeli strike but a blue couch and a glass vase of flower. (Photo: Mahmoud F. Ajjour @PalestineChronicle) pic.twitter.com/uJYShNEwmC
— Ramzy Baroud (@RamzyBaroud) May 20, 2021
The massive Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has been under a hermetic Israeli siege for 15 years, has resulted in the destruction of much of the Strip’s already hailing civilian infrastructure. Aside from government buildings and thousands of homes, the Israeli strikes also destroyed several residential and professional towers, which hosted media organizations, such as the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. The strikes also killed doctors and journalists.
Pictures of the destruction of the #AlJawhara Tower in #Gaza City, which includes residential homes and offices, as well as media institutions and shops. Al-Jawhara Tower was destroyed by #Israel in an airstrike on May 12. (All Photos: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) pic.twitter.com/hYMaTgS3oa
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 20, 2021
Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Resistance in Gaza, said that Israel is now being tested, threatening that if Israel violates the ceasefire, the rockets of Resistance will reach every part of Israel.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
