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6-10-2008  Photo Collection  
Occupied Golan: a happy event in a sad setting
A wedding day is supposed to be a day of great happiness for the bride. But for Nihal Arin, it was bittersweet.

© ICRC / U. Meissner/ il-e-01490


The bride-to-be at home on the eve of her wedding. She and her family have been crying for days because, with her impending marriage, she will leave her homeland, never to return. To live with her new husband in his native Syria, Nihal has to surrender her Israeli identification card in exchange for Syrian citizenship.

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