WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Calls have been raised for mass mobilization to welcome the Palestinian prisoners who will be released in the coming days in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem as part of the ceasefire agreement.
The calls included the organization of popular marches in support of the resistance and Gaza and in challenge of the Israeli bans on Palestinian celebrations.
Palestinians also called for mass confrontation of Israeli forces in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
A number of calls were launched in the governorates of the West Bank to go out in the city centers and head to the points of contact and bypass roads and occupy and exhaust the occupation.
On Wednesday evening, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached in the Gaza Strip, which will take effect next Sunday, January 19.
Earlier Wednesday, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani announced that Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement to halt the 15-month war in Gaza and exchange Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
He said the ceasefire would take effect on Sunday, January 19.
The agreement will be implemented over three stages, Sheikh Mohammed said. In an initial six-week phase, Israeli forces would gradually withdraw from central Gaza and Palestinians would be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza.
Hamas would release 33 Israeli captives over those six weeks, including all female soldiers and civilians, children and the elderly, he said.
Talks on the second phase would begin by the 16th day of the first phase, and are expected to include the release of the remaining captives and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the Reuters news agency reported, citing an official briefing on the negotiations.
A third phase was expected to include the return of dead bodies and the start of reconstruction in Gaza, Reuters reported.
The announcement came as the Israeli army continued its deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip.
