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.






