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Muhammad Aliwa and Ahmed Abu Daqin, two athletes both with one leg amputated, showed off their Parkour skills by climbing and jumping over obstacles in Gaza City, in footage from Monday.
Muhammad was injured in November 2018 in the east of Gaza City during the Great March of Return, where he was wounded by an explosive bullet in his right foot, which needed to be amputated on the same day.
"Before the injury, I was a football player and I used to participate in international leagues and marathons, but after the injury, when I only had one foot, I was able to continue with my life and I was able to continue with my dream, practice my normal life, practice football and basketball, I played with the Palestine national team and we played a match against the French national team where I scored my first goal," he said.
Muhammad practices Parkour without his prosthetic leg, and recently he has returned to the various sports he used to do prior to his disability, including basketball, together with Ahmed.
"Muhammad and I started playing this game together and we hope to have a special team and start this game in a wider and permanent way," said Ahmed Abu Daqin.
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SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "I was injured on November 9, 2018, on Friday in the east of Gaza City during the Return Marches, where I was wounded by an explosive bullet in my right foot, and my foot was amputated on the same day."
SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "Before the injury, I was a football player and I used to participate in international leagues and marathons, but after the injury, when I only had one foot, I was able to continue with my life and I was able to continue with my dream, practice my normal life, practice football and basketball, I played with the Palestine national team and we played a match against the French national team where I scored my first goal."
SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "Parkour is a dangerous sport but when I do it, it makes very happy, it gives me ambition and hope to go about my normal life."
SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "I succeeded despite injury and amputation, I succeeded to be able to continue with my dream, live a normal life, and succeeded to challenge the whole world, and I could challenge the occupation that was aiming to stop me from continuing my career and that left me with one foot, but I challenged the world and the [Israeli] occupation to practice my normal life and exercise sport normally."
SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "My dream, as a Parkour athlete and a sports player, to be able to travel and participate in the name of the [Palestinian] national team and raise my country's flag in international forums, and to be able to convey our dream to the world, as we have buried talents that we can convey to other countries of the world."
SOT, Muhammad Aliwa (Arabic): "My ambition is to have an athletic limb fitted to my feet, that I can play, because the sports limb will help me greatly to have a normal life, to participate in sports marathons and play football with my friends, because the sporting limb is not available in our country, but this is my dream to have a sports limb."
SOT, Ahmed Abu Daqin (Arabic): "Muhammad and I started playing this game together and we hope to have a special team and start this game in a wider and permanent way."
SOT, Ahmed Abu Daqin (Arabic): "Parkour is a dangerous sport, but we try to overcome this risk and develop our capabilities and innovate in this game and, God willing, we will have international participation in the name of Palestine."
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