The Daily Times · 31 May 2016

CP-2016-006

Top US coach promotes female wheelchair basketball in Gaza

International

By Fares Akram, Associated Press, Khan Younis

Transcribed from the clipping

“KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — A top U.S. coach is in the Gaza Strip to help set up the territory’s first female wheelchair basketball team… In 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross brought Markt to Gaza to train local referees and coaches. Now, he is back to train players and organize tournaments between wheelchair teams… The success of these teams helped the Paralympic Committee to persuade women and girls to form their own team in this conservative society, in which sports can be seen as immodest.”

Photograph caption

Disabled Palestinian women take part in a basketball training session held by top U.S. coach Jess Markt in the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

Context added by this archive

The same Associated Press story as the Chronicle-Tribune, on the same day, with one word restored to the headline. The subject is the territory’s first women’s team.

Cite this item

"Top US coach promotes female wheelchair basketball in Gaza," The Daily Times, 31 May 2016. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2016-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2016-006

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