Gaza celebrates as ceasefire with Israel takes effect

[FarCenter]

AFP - Gazans took to the streets on Wednesday to celebrate the start of a truce deal with Israel, firing into the air, honking car horns and chanting victory slogans.

The celebrations began shortly after the 1900 GMT deadline for the ceasefire to start, as agreed in a deal between Israel and Hamas that was announced in Egypt on the eighth day of violence in and around Gaza.

Heavy celebratory gunfire could be heard throughout the Gaza Strip, and residents also released fireworks into the night sky, where Israeli drones could still be buzzing heard overhead.

"The resistance has triumphed," some shouted, alongside chants of "Allahu akbar (God is greatest)."

In the minutes leading up the beginning of the ceasefire, heavy outgoing and incoming fire could be heard, but it appeared to have stopped after the deadline took effect.

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[former-republican]

1. lol

Heavy celebratory gunfire could be heard throughout the Gaza Strip,

[Igel]

2. And the gunfire apparently extended into S. Israel.

Those whacky Gazans, spreading the revelry that way.

(See, not a ceasefire violation at all. Now we can go back to the wonderfully peaceful status quo, a rocket or three per day fired into Israel, purely to share the Gazans' joie de vivre.)