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Gaza’s Ramadan League: An indispensable annual tradition

Palestinian men cheer during a football match during the holy month of Ramadan, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Eager fans line the sides of the simple sand pitch in the Rafah refugee camp, the southernmost point of the Gaza Strip, for the Ramadan Popular League final.

Defying hunger and thirst, the amateur football players of the besieged Gaza Strip have put on a display of their skills all month as they battled it out in the league to get to Tuesday’s final between the Rail Stars and Tadamon.

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