Abubaker Abed

Gaza-born for­ward Mo­hammed Bal­ah tells Al Jazeera how the war has brought his promis­ing foot­ball ca­reer to a halt.

A five-a-side foot­ball tour­na­ment at a refugee camp for dis­placed Pales­tini­ans brings mo­men­tary joy amid the war.

Foot­ball’s world gov­ern­ing body faces back­lash for ‘hyp­o­crit­i­cal’ si­lence as Is­rael faces Ice­land as the war rages on.

The peo­ple of Gaza have kept alive their love for foot­ball amid dis­place­ment, de­struc­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions black­outs.

Bury­ing the dead isn’t new, but the 64-year-old un­der­tak­er is over­whelmed with the sheer scale and hor­ror of the war.

Gaza’s beloved cham­pi­on was in line to par­tic­i­pate in the Olympics un­til an Is­raeli at­tack took her life.

Has­san al-Ram­lawi re­mem­bers his cousin Aamer, a sim­ple, lov­ing man with room in his heart for every­one.

Foot­ball, which was syn­ony­mous with life in Gaza, has been forced to take a back seat as play­ers strug­gle to stay alive.

The num­ber of chil­dren whose par­ents are both dead is mount­ing fast amid the Is­raeli bom­bard­ment.

Al-Has­san Mat­tar, 21, was at home in Deir el-Bal­ah when an Is­raeli air raid struck last week.