The UN decided to give a young Palestinian couple a break from the bloodshed and chipped in to pay for their wedding at a UN school just hours before Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire for five days.

Although war destroyed their homes and her big white dress, Omar Abu Namar, 30, and his bride Heba Fayad, 23, tied the knot yesterday at Al-Shatea refugee camp in the west of Gaza City where they are staying alongside 4,000 refugees.The UN school was decked out with a cloud of multi-coloured balloons and dancers as celebrations went late into the night before the ceasefire extension was announced, allowing the sides to continue to negotiate a substantive deal to end the war in Gaza.'If somebody told me that I would be getting married in these conditions, I would not have believed them for a second!' said Heba, as she sat in salon in Gaza City.'I had planned everything: the music, the guest list, my dress and my bouquet. And here I am today, I'm getting married in a school with thousands of refugees.' The couple were due to wed next month in her family home in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, but then the war came, laying waste to their plans. (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az