A Palestinian bride holds her wedding amid the ruins of her demolished house
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Palestinian Rabiha Rajabi did not think that she would hold her wedding amid the ruins of her house in occupied East Jerusalem, after it was destroyed by the Israeli authorities.
Speaking among the rubble, Rabiha said, wearing a traditional Palestinian dress and her hand henna-daubed.
The 22-year-old bride said that she moved to the Ain al-Lawza neighborhood from another area in Jerusalem when she was a little girl, and that her family had received several orders over the years to demolish the house they built, which made them in a state of constant tension.
According to the tradition, the groom's family arrives on the wedding day to greet the bride in the house in which she grew up, an event that usually rages with emotions and heralds the start of the new life she is about to enter.
Wearing a suit and tie, the bride's brother, Fares, said in front of his family's house, as wires protruded from the destroyed walls and a Palestinian flag fluttered over the ruins of the house.
“We want to prove to the occupation that despite our misfortunes, we are able to rejoice and we will remain rooted in our land.”
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