19-1-2025 A day for history

With the break of dawn, the people of the Gaza Strip hastened to return to their homes, villages and camps, where the occupation had destroyed all the necessities of life, livelihood and housing. The extent of the destruction was catastrophic and beyond description. The streets were filled with rubble, and the bodies of the martyrs were scattered everywhere, decomposing and rotting, and nothing remained the same.

Despite all of this, what happened yesterday will be recorded in the records as a special Palestinian day in the history of our people’s cause, based on the insistence on loving life, living with dignity, and quickly returning to rebuilding what the occupation destroyed. The will of the Gazans is beyond description in this regard, including the rapid deployment of Hamas security and police forces in all governorates in order to maintain calm and order and provide protection to citizens, out of concern for their safety.

The decisive moment began in the heart of the Gaza Brigades, where the handover of the three Israeli detainees took place amidst a large military parade by the resistance men who presented a resounding surprise by appearing on the scene and their military ability to control the reins of affairs. Israeli military and political analysts expressed their shock at the large number of fighters whom Israel believed its army had assassinated. However, the truth that no one disputes is that Hamas has succeeded greatly in defeating Israel and its global coalition, to the point that some journalists have gone so far as to say that all of Gaza is an elite, and it seems that Israel has not fought a war that lasted more than 15 months. In one of the most prominent comments in the Israeli media, Arab affairs commentator Zvi Yehezkeli said:

- There are already joyful celebrations in Gaza, the hardest thing for me this morning is seeing these scenes, the elite returning in the vehicles, those vehicles that slaughtered us, those people who slaughtered us.

- 15 months of fighting and we have not succeeded in changing the equations of war in Gaza.

- Actually I ask myself: What have we done here in a year and three months? We destroyed many homes, and offered our best sons, and in the end the result is the same formulas. Hamas is happy, aid enters, and the elite returns.

Senior Shin Bet official Micha Kobi said: This is not a deal, but the blackmail of the century. They have regained control of the Gaza Strip.

As for the analyst Yanon Yitzhak, he said in a sarcastic comment: The last job that Itamar Ben Gvir, who submitted his resignation from the occupation government, is to supervise the release of Palestinian prisoners whose release was delayed for long hours, until after midnight, due to Israeli practices and retaliatory measures, while the Qassam Brigades presented certificates and gifts to the Israeli detainees, representing a picture of the Strip, a map of Palestine, and pictures of memories of detention, so official media analysts rushed to attack Hamas, and consider this part of a psychological war, while the Israeli media was a mouthpiece for incitement against citizens and police who were deployed with their weapons since the morning hours of yesterday, so Israel fabricated the pretext of Hamas’s delay in handing over the names of the detainees to commit new massacres that claimed the lives of more than 19 martyrs.

After a difficult day in the morning hours, the ceasefire agreement went into effect before noon, and Gaza lived the rest of the day and even the night in peace. The sounds of guns died down, the whizzing of bullets, the flying of planes, and the shelling of cannons and warships stopped, so that it could live in the hope of regaining its health as soon as possible, with the start of aid trucks entering, and the insistence on extracting light from the darkness of the prisons, and paving dreams over the rubble.

This is Gaza, which wrote a new birth certificate stamped with the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of its great people who chanted the Eid takbeers, on a day that will remain preserved in the eternal records.