Majda was destitute. Her husband and eldest son had been killed by Israeli airstrikes. Living in a ragged tent in Gaza with rats and the stench of sewage, she couldn’t support her children and feared her daughters would be harassed going to the communal latrine in a camp with hundreds of strangers.
So she made a decision she now deeply regrets. She married off her 13- and 14-year-old daughters to men who promised safety and support.
