Paralympics - Palestine athlete sees himself as a voice for his people

Nine months ago, Fadi Aldeeb missed several calls from his brother. The next day, he found out that he had been killed in an Israeli attack on his home. Aldeeb, the only Palestinian athlete at the Paris Paralympics, left the Gaza Strip a decade ago for a wheelchair basketball career that took him to Turkiye and Greece, before France, Reuters reports. “On December 6, I had a French league game and when I was finished I found my brother had called me many times … I tried to call back but there was no connection,” Aldeeb, who took part in the Paralympics shot put, told Reuters. “The 7th of December at night I received (the news) that ‘Okay, your brother […]