5-year-old Duma attack survivor to visit Real Madrid on March 17March 6, 2016 1:44 P.M. (Updated : March 6, 2016 1:54 P.M.)
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Major Spanish football team Real Madrid will be welcoming on March 17 a young Palestinian boy whose family was killed in an arson attack committed by Israeli settlers last year, the Palestinian Football Federation said on Saturday.
Ahmad Dawabsha, 5, was the sole survivor of a deadly arson attack carried out by extremist Israeli settlers on his family home in the northern West Bank village of Duma on July 30 last year. The child lost both his parents, Saad and Riham, as well as his 18-month-old brother, Ali.
Federation president Jibril Rajoub said in a statement that Real Madrid “sympathized with Dawabsha after a photo of him wearing the team’s uniform in his hospital bed went viral,” and agreed to host Ahmad later this month.
Ahmad will be accompanied by two adult family members, as well as a representative of the Palestinian Real Madrid supporters club.
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Israeli forces detain nine, including football player, in West Bank
March 6, 2016 11:13 A.M. (Updated : March 6, 2016 5:17 P.M.)
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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians — including a football player — in raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
At least five Palestinians were detained in and around the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.
The organization identified the detainees as Yasin al-Rajabi and his son Shadi, Layth Noor al-Alami, Shadi Ibrahim Bahar, and Sami al-Daour.
Al-Daour is a football player from the Gaza Strip currently playing for Shabab al-Samu club, which is ranked in the first division of the West Bank league, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said.
Israeli troops also stormed the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar at dawn and detained three teenagers, including twin brothers, a local committee spokesman told Ma’an.
Muhammad Ayyad Awad identified the detainees as brothers Mamoon and Jamal Mahmoud al-Qam, 17, and Muataz Nayhal Bahar, 17.