Fadi Aldeeb, who lost his brother in an Israeli attack on Gaza, raises Palestine’s flag in Paris as an act of resistance.
Nine months ago, Fadi Aldeeb missed several calls from his brother in Gaza. The next day, Aldeeb found out he had been killed in an Israeli attack on his home.
Aldeeb, the only Palestinian athlete at the Paris Paralympics, left the Gaza Strip a decade ago for a wheelchair basketball career that took him to Turkey and Greece before he finally arrived in France.
“On December 6, I had a French league game, and when I was finished, I found my brother had called me many times. … I tried to call back, but there was no connection,” Aldeeb told the Reuters news agency.
“On December 7, I received [the news from Gaza] that ‘OK, your brother was killed in an attack on our building,'” Aldeeb said, adding that he often wonders what his brother’s last message was.
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