'Gaza has won': Social media users react to ceasefire with mix of relief, joy

Social media users have reacted with a mix of relief and joy to news of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Many users are celebrating what they see as a victory for the Palestinian resistance to 15 months of a brutal campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing by an apartheid regime, which has left a massive trail of death and destruction in Gaza, the largest open prison in the world.

"Gaza has won, Palestine has won, resistance has won," a Palestinian woman wrote on social media platform X.

“Imperialism and Zionism has lost, the Democratic Party has lost, the future of the Zionist state continues to be eroded.”

She said everyone “who participated, aided and abetted this genocide will continue to pay the price.”

Another user, Yasmine El-Sabawi, said she was “overwhelmed with emotion watching Palestinians in Gaza erupt in long-awaited relief & joy at the news of a ceasefire agreement.”

The sentiment surrounding the ceasefire also includes strong denunciations of imperialism and Zionism. Many users highlight the failure of Israel’s Western backers, the United States, in supporting an oppressive regime.

“They tried eliminating the resistance through genocide & destruction, but the people of Gaza stood tall and kept fighting until the last breath.”

Nora Barrows, reporter and associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, said this ceasefire happened “because of the immovable and tenacious bravery and ingenuity of the Palestinian resistance, and the humanitarian interventions of Lebanese and Yemeni forces.”

“Palestinian liberation is inevitable; Zionism collapses in its shadow.”

Journalist Rania Khalek says she is happy over the ceasefire deal, but nobody can “rest until the genocidal imperialists who inflicted apocalyptic destruction on Gaza are held accountable and their systems dismantled.”

The Israeli regime has killed over 46,700 people, including thousands of children, in Gaza since October 2023, according to the figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry on Wednesday.

"The Israelis murdered probably hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in every depraved way imaginable,” Khalek wrote.

Others remind the world that the Palestinian conflict is rooted in a long history of occupation and oppression. The struggle for Palestinian liberation is far from over, they say.

Afif Aqrabawi, a Palestinian-Canadian X user, says this is a moment of joy, “but grief lingers in the air.”

“One year and one hundred days of massacres — rivers of blood, oceans of tears, homes reduced to rubble, lives torn apart.”

Palestinian football journalist Leyla Hamed says Palestinians in Gaza will now “visit their loved ones' graves since they never got to say goodbye.”

“Every single family in Gaza has experienced the killing of a relative.”

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