The ceasefire celebrations in Gaza last January were so exciting that Palestinian Al-Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif could hardly be listened to on air over the shouts of his fellow citizens. “” Now I can finally remove this helmet, which has exhausted me throughout this duration, and this vest, which has actually entered into my body,”” he said as he lost the safety tools he had actually been wearing virtually regularly for 15 months. Al-Sharif was then lifted upon the shoulders of the jubilant crowd.