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Forced Underage Marriages Continue in Gaza - Al-Monitor the Pulse of the Middle EastYou just titled it all as an hoax while in fact I just pointed out the reasons why this is not, debates over?
What reasons?
None of those links confirm mass child weddings.
Can you confirm from credible sources that these are mass weddings of little children whereas the articles on mass weddings in Gaza at the time show that it is not the children that are the brides? Even you link that was nothing more than a photo album showed a few of the adult women.
If there were mass weddings of little children don't you think the media - especially the western media would report it as such? There is not a single credible journalist claiming it's child brides.
Wiki "In the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian-issued Law of Family Rights set puberty as the minimum age of marriage with no marriage allowed for a female aged under 9 or a male aged under 12. The Palestinian Qadi al-Quda issued an administrative decision in 1995 raising these ages to a minimum of 15 for the female and 16 for the male,[8] as in the Jordanian law. All ages are calculated according to the lunar calendar. Marriage registration is mandatory but failure to register does not invalidate the marriage."