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Palestinian couple, Mohammed Al-Ghandour and his wife Shahad, walk on their wedding day in a camp tent, ??amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 18 January 2024
GAZA – Palestinian groom Mohammed Al-Ghandour wanted to give his bride a beautiful wedding but, after the war started in Gaza, they had to leave their home and the couple finally got married this week in the tent city where they now live.
Ghandour led his wife, Shahad, by the hand towards a tent decorated with several colorful lights and mirrors with gold frames while several relatives ushered them in while clapping their hands in time.
Inside the tent, Shahad, wearing a white dress and veil with traditional red embroidery, raised her hand and Ghandour put a ring on it.
“I want to party. I want a celebration, a wedding. “I want to invite my friends, my brothers and my cousins, as much as anyone,” Ghandour said, as reported by Reuters.
The pair come from Gaza City north of the small enclave, the scene of heavy Israeli bombardment and the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas since the war began on October 7.
The Ghandour and Shahad family’s homes were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, they said, and they lost cousins and other family members in the bombing.
“My happiness may be at 3 percent, but I will be ready to welcome my wife. I want to make him happy,” Ghandour said.
The war began when Hamas fighters rampaged through Israel, killing more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 240 hostages. Israeli bombings and attacks on Gaza have killed more than 24,760 people according to health authorities there.
However, Haaretz has since revealed that Israeli army helicopters and tanks have, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and civilians Israel claims to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.