In a Gaza Strip battered by years of war, amputee footballers gathered this week on a dusty field in Deir al-Balah, turning crutches into lifelines and the game into a rare source of joy, identity and defiance.
The four-day Hope Football Championship brought together dozens of male and female athletes who lost limbs in conflict β some during the 2018-19 Great March of Return demonstrations, others in the two-year war that began on Oct.
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