Palestinian bride Suwar Safi was looking forward to wearing her white dress and sharing her life with Ahmed after their wedding, but instead she is living in a refugee camp after Israel launched air strikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, according to Reuters.

“Everyone was telling me, it’s ok and to have faith, this is our destiny and we have to accept it,” she said, adding: “We did not get the chance to experience that joy.”

Safi, 30, and her family from the northern Gaza Strip are now displaced and living in a tent at a United Nations site in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Ahmed Safi, from Khan Younis, still lives with his family and the couple rarely see each other because of the conflict.

Palestinian couple Ahmed and Suwar Safi, who delayed their wedding that was planned for October 19 due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, look at a mobile phone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. — Reuters
Palestinian couple Ahmed and Suwar Safi, who delayed their wedding that was planned for October 19 due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, look at a mobile phone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. — Reuters

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