'Sending you love from Gaza': Palestinians hail ceasefire deal

Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories: Palestinians in Gaza clapped, cheered and danced in the pre dawn darkness on Thursday, after Israel and Hamas agr...

Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories: Palestinians in Gaza clapped, cheered and danced in the pre-dawn darkness on Thursday, after Israel and Hamas agreed on the phase one of the peace deal in a major step towards ending the devastating two-year war in the territory.

Around a dozen young men shouted joyful chants of "Allahu akbar", meaning God is the greatest, outside Khan Yunis's Nasser Hospital, as one man lifted another onto his shoulders.

A man wearing a journalist's press vest could also be seen carried above the crowd.

"Thanks to God for this ceasefire, thanks for the end of the bloodshed and the killing," said Abdelmajid Abedrabbo, one of the people celebrating.

"I am not the only one who is happy, all of the Gaza Strip is happy, all of the Arab people are happy about the ceasefire," he added.