Pandemic Helps Gaza's Youth Tie the Knot
Pandemic Helps Gaza’s Youth Tie the Knot Sanaa Alswerky 21% rise in marriages as the coronavirus crisis drives costs down, official says [Gaza City] In addition to dealing crushing blows to the health, finances and social lives of the more than 2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, the COVID-19 pandemic has, bizarrely, proved a blessing for many young couples in the tiny coastal enclave. Gaza’s Islamic courts registered 20,919 marriage contracts in 2020, compared with 17,270 the previous year, an increase of 21%, Sheikh Hassan al-Jojo, the head of Gaza’s Supreme Sharia Judi...
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