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

Palestinians in southern Gaza clapped, cheered and danced in the predawn darkness on Thursday, after Israel and Hamas agreed a ceasefire deal to end the devastating two-year war in the territory.

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Palestinians celebrate on a street following the news that Israel and Hamas have agreed on Wednesday to the first phase of US President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this screengrab obtained from a video released on Thursday.

(reuters)

A crowd of around a dozen young men shouted joyful chants of "Allahu akbar", meaning God is the greatest, outside Khan Younis’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, speaking into a microphone.

"Thanks to God for this ceasefire, thanks for the end of the bloodshed and the killing," said Abdelmajid Abedrabbo, a resident of south Gaza.

"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.