Covenant of Spiritual Independence: LORD God help the Children of Gaza

I have only just now been led to this story about the Hamas wedding of 450 children. Hamas recreating the wedding of the six year old Aisha. There are not words to describe how a mother feels to see little girls being married to men three to four times their age. More child marriages were planned in the days that followed this celebrated event in Gaza in 2009. News media claim the grooms were aged from 18 to 28 and that the grooms were holding hands with their young nieces and cousins, little girls aged from 3 to 8.

Islamic sources tell us that the child Aisha was only six years old when she was married.

“It is reported from Aisha that she said: The Prophet entered into marriage with me when I was a girl of

six … and at the time [of joining his household] I was a girl of nine years of age.” “Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed [alone] for two years or so.

He married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consummated that marriage when she was nine years old.”