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Streets of the Gaza Strip shake off the ashes of genocide and chant for resistance

Sunday 19-January-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

At 08.30 in the morning on January 19, 2025, the scene in the Gaza Strip was different, as celebrations and joy filled the streets and displacement camps with the entry of the ceasefire to halt the genocide in the Gaza Strip coming into effect. However, these celebrations were marred by violations from the Israeli occupation army, even hours after the ceasefire began, resulting in the martyrdom of 23 citizens and injuries to dozens who were counting down the seconds to the moment when the shadow of genocide would be lifted.

A PIC correspondent reported that many vehicles filled the streets of the cities in the Gaza Strip, honking in celebration of the end of the genocide, while the calls to prayer from the mosques, including those that were destroyed, rose in volume. There was an overwhelming sense of joy at the resilience of the people and their resistance in the face of the fiercest war witnessed in modern times by an occupying force that rallied the world to annihilate two million people in a narrow coastal enclave. Spontaneous marches erupted, filled with chants supporting the resistance and greetings to the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and other Palestinian resistance factions.

The people of Gaza repeated the slogan they had long sung during previous confrontations with the occupation, declaring their unity around the man who announced the “Flood of Al-Aqsa” battle: “Place the sword against the sword; we are all men of Mohammed Deif,” thus expressing their absolute awareness that they side with the option of resistance, regardless of the sacrifices, and despite the multitude of wounds in the body of Gaza, exhausted from betrayal except for the resistance in the Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and other resistance factions, for whom the celebrants chanted, “Long live the Al-Qassam Brigades.”

The streets of the Gaza Strip, burdened with explosive rockets searching for resistance, saw the deployment of thousands of security personnel to maintain order in the region, after months of genocide during which security personnel were primary targets, seeking tribal rule loyal to the occupation. However, those tribes did not yield, thwarting the occupation’s plans and paying the price with the blood of their leaders.

In a scene familiar to the people of Gaza, every confrontation with the occupation has become commonplace. The resistance fighters soon emerged, armed and riding in vehicles through the streets of the cities, amidst a spirit of popular unity. Citizens also fired bullets and fireworks in abundance, celebrating the end of the genocide and commemorating the victory of the resistance and the failure of Israel to achieve any of its declared objectives, primarily the elimination of the resistance.

In the alleys of the displacement camps scattered throughout the Gaza Strip, citizens began distributing sweets to the children psychologically drained by the war, whose small bodies were weakened by hunger, and who had paid the highest price for the genocide with their blood and limbs. They openly declared that today is a day of celebration, and they have the right to celebrate in every way possible despite the horrors they have endured.

In another scene, citizens began dismantling their tents and moving back to their homes, raising signs of victory and Palestinian flags above the ruins of the destroyed residential neighborhoods. Revolutionary songs rose from the heart of the displacement camps, expressing a state of joy and pride, in a scene that pulsated with dignity and pride.

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