'We Love Life': Gaza Couple Marry In Wartime Ceremony

Relatives were gathered for the wartime wedding in a tiny room at an abandoned school building in Rafah, near Gaza's frontier with Egypt.

Surrounded by family and friends, clapping and cheering, Gaza woman Afnan Jibril beams a brilliant smile on her wedding day, determined to celebrate even as war rages.

"We are a people that love life, despite death, murders, and destruction," said her father, Mohamed Jibril.

Relatives were gathered on Friday for the wartime wedding in a tiny room at an abandoned school building in the besieged Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah, near the frontier with Egypt.