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Mass wedding of Palestinians in Lebanon
22-1-2019
Under the slogan ‘In support of Palestinians residents of Palestinian Camps’ and as part of strengthening ties between sister nations, Lebanon and Palestine, a mass ceremony was held on January 19 for 150 Palestinian couples, in addition to 50 Lebanese couples who were wed in the southern town of Rmeileh. The mass wedding organized by the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, is one of 4 communal wedding ceremonies, two of which were held earlier in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, while preparations are underway for another to take place in Syria. On the occasion, the head of the Palestinian Popular Committees in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon, Abu Iyad Shaalan, said the ceremony eases the life of camps residents, particularly the youth. He explained that grooms were selected based on certain financial criteria proving their inability to pay for the wedding. Shaalan also stressed that the harsh economic conditions of the Palestinian people and our increasing interest in the young people, prompted the Palestinian President to hold the ceremony in order to support their steadfastness and bind them together in the diaspora. (Al Diyar, January 21, 2019)
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