‘We skate on the rooftops of damaged buildings’: a day in the life of a skateboarder in Gaza
15 days ago by velma to c/wildfeed
Rajab al-Reefi remembers the day the club’s last skateboard broke. Those pastry-thin layers of maple, carefully pressed into a curve, had carried child after child up and down the homemade ramps of the skatepark. Having endured years beyond their typical lifespan, the board’s layers buckled, cracked and finally snapped.
At 30, Rajab is a leader of the Gaza skate club, a group that has spent the past decade teaching girls and boys to skate. But Israel’s siege of Gaza blocks a vast array of ordinary household goods from entering the territory, with the Israelis claiming they could be used by Hamas. One of the banned items is a skateboard.
Rajab is a skater in Gaza, a place with almost no boards left. This is what a day in his life looks like.
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