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Palestinian operator group Hamas stated Monday that Gaza and its folks “will rise once more” and rebuild the territory battered by greater than 15 months of Israeli bombardment.
“Gaza, with its nice folks and its resilience, will rise once more to rebuild what the occupation has destroyed and proceed on the trail of steadfastness till the occupation is defeated,” Hamas stated in a press release issued on the second day of a ceasefire with Israel.
“Over the course of 471 days, the systematic crimes of the occupation have did not dissuade our folks and their valiant resistance from clinging to the land and confronting the aggression.”
The conflict in Gaza broke out after Hamas’s unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, which resulted within the deaths of 1,210 folks, largely civilians, based on an AFP tally based mostly on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s blistering army response has killed a minimum of 46,913 folks in Gaza, based on the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry, whose figures are thought of dependable by the United Nations.
An preliminary 42-day truce got here into impact on Sunday, with Hamas and Israel conducting a swap during which three Israeli hostages had been launched by the operators in alternate for some 90 Palestinian prisoners free of Israel jails.
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