Gaza skaters battle blockade and conservatism

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Joe Dyke | AFP
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Sun, 2019-05-05 03:29

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza City is a noisy place: street vendors holler and drivers blare their horns incessantly, but at the city’s port an unfamiliar sound can be heard — the rumble, grind and clatter of skateboards.
The ramps and ledges a few hundred meters (yards) from the sea may not look like much, but they make up the first and only full skate park in the Palestinian enclave.
The young men that come most days say it provides them a rare opportunity for fun in Gaza, hemmed in physically by an Israeli blockade and mentally by a conservative culture.

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