Israel Kills 560 Palestinian Footballers, Trainers – Sports Official

Secretary-general of the Palestinian Union For Sports Media Mustapha Siyam said that the Israeli occupation killed more than 1012 sportsmen and scouts in the Gaza Strip since it began war offensive on 7 October, 2023. He added that during this war Israel killed 560 footballers and their trainers. Siyam pointed out that Israel destroyed all the official Palestinian sports institutions in the Gaza Strip and the football fields were turned into places for thousands of families displaced in this war on the enclave.  

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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