Large ceremonies are customary in Palestinian society, where weddings bind the couple to each other — and to the community. Um Mohammed, right, greeted the bride-to-be at the engagement party in Kufr Aqab. One of the guests was Um Mohammed, a woman in her 40s wearing a headscarf and a friend of the bride-to-be's mother. I believe coronavirus doesn't come to a healthy person," said Um Mohammed (mother of Mohammed), who didn't want to give her surname. Everything is in God's hands," said Um Mohammed.

Source: CBC News September 10, 2020 07:52 UTC