Marriage in the Palestinian territories deals with the marriage law and customs in the Palestinian territories, i.e., the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israeli marriage law applies to Israeli settlers in Area C of the West Bank and to residents of East Jerusalem. Laws Personal status issues of Muslims in the Palestinian territories, including marriage, are governed by customary law, of the Sunni Islam Hanafi school (despite most Palestinian Muslims follow the Shafi'i school) as codified and modified by legislation as follows: for Muslims in the West Bank - the Jordanian Personal Status Law of 1976 continues to apply. However, PA Law no. 5 of 2018, signed on 14 March 2018, repealed the marry-your-rapist law contained in article 308 of the 1960 Jordon Penal Code. for Muslims in the Gaza Strip - the Egyptian Law of Family Rights 1954 continues to apply. Muslims in East Jerusalem, which is claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, are subject to Israeli marriage law, which is based on the Israeli Millet system, which applies to Muslims in Israel the Ottoman Law of Family Rights as amended by Israeli legislation since 1948. Since at least 1959, polygamous marriages have been prohibited in Israel, which applies to members of each confessional community, including the Jewish and Muslim. Registration of marriage is mandatory, but failure to register a marriage does not invalidate the marriage. As at March 2012, work is reported to be proceeding on the text of a Palestinian personal status law. Minimum marriage age In the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian-issued Law of Family Rights 1954 set puberty as the minimum age of marriage with no marriage allowed for a female aged under 9 or a male aged under 12. The Palestinian Qadi al-Quda issued an administrative decision in 1995 raising these ages in Gaza to a minimum of 15 for a female and 16 for a male, which aligned with the Jordanian law which applied to the West Bank. In 2010, in the West Bank, the minimum age of marriage was 15 for girls and 16 for boys. In Gaza the minimum age was 17 for girls and 18 for boys. Judges had the power to approve an earlier marriage. In November 2019, the PA government raised the minimum marriage age to 18 for both genders in an effort to reduce rates of early marriage. According to statistics, 37% of married Palestinian