Fadi Aldeeb wants to see future Palestinian delegations at Paralympic and Olympic competitions grow.
Palestinian athlete Fadi Aldeeb poses for a photograph outside the athletes' village at the Paralympic Games in Paris , Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. PARIS — Fadi Aldeeb got the competing out of the way early at the Paralympic Games. He’s been using the rest of the time to talk.
The winner, world record holder Ruzhdi Ruzhdi, returned to Bulgaria with his gold medal, but Aldeeb has stayed around the Paralympic Village, speaking to media about the desperate situation in his homeland following Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza afterAfter nearly 11 months of fighting, the war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who say about half of the dead are women and children. It has displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.
“I received a call from his daughter, she’s like, 7 years old. I never ever can forget this,” Aldeeb said, fighting tears. “She asked me, ‘My uncle, I know he’s died and he goes – Inshallah – to Jannah, but I want his body. I don’t need his body to stay under the building, and the dogs start eating his body.’ Imagine, a child 7 years old, speaking like this.”Aldeeb said other family members decided to scatter around the Gaza Strip to maximize their chances of survival.
“Sometimes, you keep your feelings inside of yourself because you don’t want to show yourself, like, weak or something like that. You want to keep going because you have a big goal. You want to have it, but at the same time when you’re alone, yeah, you’re crying, you’re human,” he said.
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