Ahmed and Saleh, amputated children of Gaza, learn to swim: “Water is the only place they are free”
The NGO Heal Palestine and veteran swimming monitors are launching these classes to give a break to children especially traumatized by months of death and displacement.
Ahmed al Masri closes his eyes, leans back and floats. A monitor stays by his side in a small pool that reaches their waist and gradually lets him go. This is the second swimming class for the 14-year-old Palestinian teenager, who lost his right leg in July 2025 when he went out to look for food for his family at a time when hunger was hitting Gaza as hard as Israeli bombings.
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