The will triumphed over genocide

Our great Palestinian people have the right to rejoice with the imminent implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the cessation of aggression on the Gaza Strip starting next Sunday, which is the date the agreement will enter into force.

After 15 months of killing and destruction of all the necessities of life in Gaza, and amidst the convoys of martyrs who rose in the battle to defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, our great people have the right to receive all expressions of pride, honor and praise for their legendary steadfastness and the heads of their loyal sons that have remained high and proud, reaching the sky, so that our people may reap the fruits of their great sacrifices with this agreement that will gradually stop the war, in the hope of completing the stages of the agreement until the aggression is completely ended.

The agreement announced yesterday by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, after marathon and complex negotiations under the supervision of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, constitutes an achievement for our people, our nation, our valiant resistance and all the free people of the world, who demonstrated and held sit-ins in all parts of the world, and denounced, condemned and denounced this most ferocious aggression in history, to be recorded as a landmark and a turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, on the path to our people’s freedom and return.

If the agreement is adhered to, it will put an end to the Palestinian bloodshed that has been shed abundantly on the homeland as a result of the massacres and war of extermination that our people have been subjected to. A word of thanks must be given to everyone who stood and showed solidarity with our people, from those with honorable positions, whether official or popular institutions that contributed to exposing the occupation and its aggressive policies.

Gaza has succeeded in foiling all the plans and conspiracies, most notably the plan of deportation, displacement, and settlement, the annexation of parts of Gaza, the plan to eliminate and finish off the resistance, and the plan to shatter the steely will of the Gazans, to establish itself at the peaks of pride and dignity, despite the pain, suffering, and loss of loved ones in the unprecedented Israeli massacre. It deserves peace because it is the promise of the coming peace, when its people return to their tents that were torn apart by the Israeli bombardment cannons, even if its people sleep on the rubble.

The coming days and hours will be difficult and charged with tension, anticipation and anxiety for the citizens who will return to their homes or tents, and the families of the prisoners who will be released, but they are nothing compared to the long months and days in which the citizens lived in hell and terrifying nightmares. It is time for this war to stop so that we can perform our duty of honoring the martyrs, recovering the bodies from under the rubble, treating the injured and disabled, and beginning the new journey of life with the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza won the war of extermination, and the poet's words were true:

If the people one day want life

Fate must respond

The night must end

The chains must be broken