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Gaza residents find joy in the beautiful game - on a soccer pitch surrounded by destruction

(14 Feb 2026) RESTRICTIONS: Use on broadcast and digital channels, including social. Available worldwide. Can be used for the duration of your current contract. No takedown necessary for stand alone digital users. All usage subject to rights licensed in contract. For any questions regarding rights restrictions please contact planning@sntv.com Gaza City, Gaza Strip. 14th February 2026. 1. 00:00 Various of players in action during the match 2. 00:19 SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khalil Abu Sultan, former soccer player: "Only God knows how I arrived here. We came because we wanted to watch and to relieve some of the stress and worries of the situation we're in, hoping that sports will gradually return to us. We hope to continue, the clubs reopen, the destruction is (repaired), and the soccer club, its facilities, and its fields are restored. Right now, there’s nothing left. We are all upset, many had lost their homes, some had been martyred. We felt suffocated and wanted to come to enjoy ourselves a little, to escape the issues and misery we were facing." 3. 00:47 8. Various of players in action 4. 01:04 9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Felfel, soccer spectator: "We have nothing to do. They (Israelis) have left us with no work or any other activities, so we come here to spend time. We come to watch things that we have been deprived of. We watch soccer and enjoy ourselves. We cheer (to clubs) that we supported even before the war, back when soccer was just soccer." 5. 01:18 Various of players in action 6. 01:35 SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Felfel, soccer spectator: "There are almost no fields left in Gaza. Perhaps only two or three fields remain across the entire area. In all of Gaza, only the Palestine Field and another field in the Al-Darraj (neighborhood of Gaza City) are still available, just two fields remain." 7. 01:47 Various of players in action SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS DURATION: 02:06 STORYLINE: A new soccer field was opened earlier this week among the rubble of Gaza City, an attempt to bring some joy and a space for recreation to the hundreds of thousands Palestinians living in the devastated territory. "We came because we wanted to watch and to relieve some of the stress and worries of the situation we're in, hoping that sports will gradually return to us," said Khalil Abu Sultan, a former soccer player. Many spectators sat on the rubble of destroyed houses to watch the match. "We have nothing to do. They (Israelis) have left us with no work or any other activities, so we come here to spend time. We come to watch things that we have been deprived of," said Adel Felfel, another spectator who came to watch the game. Several buildings were destroyed next to the field, serving a stark reminder of the devastation surrounding the new soccer field. The United Nations Satellite Center estimated that 83% of all structures in Gaza City had been destroyed or had some damage by late September. It has said around 78% of structures across all of Gaza had been destroyed or sustained damage by July. Israel launched its offensive after Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 251 hostage in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The military accuses Hamas of concealing military assets beneath or near heritage sites, as well as other civilian structures. Israel’s military offensive killed over 72,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, and erased entire extended families. But it does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...