In photos: Gaza celebrates the ceasefire announcement
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<div alt="Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Gaza City, October 9, 2025. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0f2806e8-c62e-4bdf-9658-4fd886baf81d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-10-09T102509Z_118559544_RC298HA0QD3F_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-min.JPG" width="6240" height="4101" alt="Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Gaza City, October 9, 2025. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high">
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<figcaption>Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Gaza City, 9 October, 2025. (Reuters)</figcaption>
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<div alt="Palestinian children celebrate, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, October 9, 2025. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3476491e-0a30-4b64-83dd-a660fd8edb5b" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-10-09T100147Z_919281530_RC298HA4VG1X_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-min.JPG" width="6000" height="4199" alt="Palestinian children celebrate, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, October 9, 2025. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image">
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<figcaption>Palestinian children celebrate the ceasefire announcement, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, 9 October, 2025. (REUTERS)</figcaption>
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<div alt="A man distributes sweets at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 9, 2025, " data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="359568a6-c0cd-499c-b349-fe03a776fc9f" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_788D3G9.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="A man distributes sweets at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 9, 2025, " typeof="foaf:Image">
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<figcaption>A man distributes sweets at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on 9 October, 2025. (AFP)</figcaption>
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