Published 21 May 2021 at 20.04
Abroad. The Palestinian armed group Hamas celebrated its “victory” against Israel on Friday night. It reports several media outlets.
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The reason is the ceasefire that came into force between Israel and Hamas on Friday night after an eleven-day war. Hamas has declared itself the victor.
During the conflict, Hamas has fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, most of which have either been shot down by Israel's air defense system Iron Dome or hit Palestinian soil. At the same time, Israel has carried out thousands of airstrikes on targets in Gaza. 250 people have been killed, most of them Palestinians. The ceasefire, negotiated with the help of Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, was accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Security Council on Thursday night. However, the mayors of Ashkelon and Sderot, two Israeli cities hard hit by Hamas rocket fire, say they are disappointed, writes the BBC. They believe that Israel should have continued the war and “destroyed” Hamas.
However, many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have had to celebrate their victory in the dark. Several power lines that supply the Palestinian land strip with electricity from power plants in Israel have been damaged by Hamas rockets, the Times and Israel write. And the union that organizes the Israeli line repairers has announced that their members will for the time being refuse to repair the power lines.