for decades, Amjad Tantesh Taught children in Gaza to swim.
But every time a journalist builds a pool, it is destroyed in an Israeli attack. “I don’t remember how many pools I had to build and rebuild,” he says. annie kelly.
Yet Israel’s latest war in Gaza has brought even worse. Not only was Amjed’s “most beautiful” pool reduced to rubble, he has also lost dozens of his loved ones: his brother, who taught him to swim; His mother; Many of his fellow swimming coaches; And he taught swimming to dozens of children over the years.
Still, he kept going. Today In Focus heard about their efforts to rebuild five pools on the beach and about the children who have resumed their swimming lessons.
Meanwhile, our chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, Describes how years of war and blockade have ruined the childhoods of hundreds of thousands of youth in the Gaza Strip.
with additional reporting Seham Tantesh.
You can find more information about Amjad’s swimming pool project Here.
