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Chile’s Palestino soccer club captures local Palestinian community's pride and grief

Club Palestino soccer team fans celebrate their victory over Santiago Wanderers at a local league match at La Cisterna stadium in Santiago, Chile, July 12, 2024. © Matias Basualdo, AP

Chile's legendary Club Deportivo Palestino is a place for the world's largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East to connect with their ancestral home, thousands of miles away. As the war in the Gaza war rages, the club's game atmosphere and political stunts have increasingly drawn upon a fierce sense of collective Palestinian pride and identity. 

Arms raised high. Banners denouncing the war in Gaza. Crowds united in song and wrapped in keffiyehs, the black-and-white checkered scarves that have become a badge of Palestinian identity.

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