{"id":1993539,"date":"2023-08-07T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration-to-young-swimmers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:58:37","slug":"gaza-amputee-is-inspiration-to-young-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration-to-young-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza amputee inspires young swimmers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgaza-amputee-is-inspiration-to-young-swimmers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Amputee Inspires \u2062as Swimming Coach in Gaza<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By Nidal al-Mughrabi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>GAZA (Reuters) \u2013 Majdi El-Tattar was just nine\u200c years old when he lost his leg\u200d in an \u200daccident. Now he is an inspiration to aspiring swimmers in \u2064Gaza \u2013 \u2063as a qualified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everyone-knows-its-the-wrong-thing-to-do-teammates-of-trans-u-penn-swimmer-unhappy-with-record-smashing\/\" title=\"'Everyone Knows It's the Wrong Thing to Do': Teammates of Trans U Penn. Swimmer Unhappy with Record Smashing\">swimming coach<\/a> who runs his own school.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Parents bringing their children to swimming classes for the first\u200b time are surprised to see Tattar standing on two \u2062crutches, but their doubts \u2064soon turn into \u2063confidence when they see his skills in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Tattar, now aged\u2063 42, lost his right\u2063 leg when he was run over\u200b by a car. Faced with the problem of finding a job in the Palestinian enclave, where nearly half the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-lobby-bbb-will-fix-joe-bidens-inflation-by-cutting-voters-wages\/\" title=\"Amnesty Lobby: BBB Will Fix Joe Biden's Inflation by Cutting Voters' Wages\">working-age population<\/a> is unemployed, he \u200dtook to swimming and qualified as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told myself I had to turn this \u200bordeal into a blessing, I\u200c made the amputation of my leg\u2062 a\u2062 motive for me to become an active\u2062 member of\u200d the society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI developed my\u2063 skills and that enabled me to start a swimming\u200b school,\u201d Tattar told Reuters as a few \u200ddozen of \u200bhis students trained in the\u200d water.<\/p>\n<p>His\u2062 Palestinian Swimming Academy holds its classes in a \u2062local pool and its \u200dstudents include youngsters\u200d and adults \u2063alike.<\/p>\n<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross \u200blists at \u200cleast 1,600\u200b amputees among Gaza\u2019s population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-to-roll-out-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-from-jan-4-sunday-telegraph-says\/\" title=\"UK to roll out Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from Jan. 4, Sunday Telegraph says\">2 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Assalama Charitable Society, which cares for wounded \u2062and \u2062people with disabilities, said 532 Gazans had lost limbs in the conflict with \u2062Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the U.S.-based Palestine Children\u2019s Relief Fund\u200c (PCRF) brought together \u2062120 Gaza children who have upper and lower limb \u200camputations, into a \u2062summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in Camp Ability \u2063is to\u200c join the kids together, to bring \u2064them, to\u2064 show them and show the communities they live in that\u200b they are able-bodied and they can do anything,\u201d PCRF Dunia Saed said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  (Reporting by Nidal Almughrabi; Editing by Angus MacSwan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration\/attachment\/man-with-disability-from-gaza-becomes-a-high-in-demand-swimming-coach\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration\/attachment\/man-with-disability-from-gaza-becomes-a-high-in-demand-swimming-coach-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration\/attachment\/man-with-disability-from-gaza-becomes-a-high-in-demand-swimming-coach-3\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration\/attachment\/man-with-disability-from-gaza-becomes-a-high-in-demand-swimming-coach-4\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration\/attachment\/man-with-disability-from-gaza-becomes-a-high-in-demand-swimming-coach-5\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Other News:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Environmental, social, and corporate governance also known \u200bas ESG has\u2062 received a lot of pushback as many have called it \u2064&#8221;woke capitalism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Public Sq. is\u2062 a non-woke marketplace that seeks to connect shoppers with pro-American vendors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee announced there will be\u2062 no debates leading\u200c up \u200bto the Democrat primary election.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The cost of gas is climbing again, with many \u2064drivers concerned that they could see those 2022 prices again.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>By Jaiveer Shekhawat\u2062 and Hannah Lang (Reuters)\u2063 -Payments giant \u200dPayPal said on Monday it \u200bhas launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, \u200dbecoming \u2062the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters)\u200b -Facebook owner Meta Platforms will \u2064be fined 1 million crowns \u200c($98,500) per day over privacy \u200bbreaches from\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>By James Pearson\u200d and Christopher Bing LONDON\/WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013 An elite group \u2062of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>BRASILIA \u2062(Reuters) \u2013 Brazil\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-amputee-is-inspiration-to-young-swimmers\/\" title=\"Gaza amputee inspires young swimmers.\">central bank forthcoming digital currency<\/a>, \u2064set to launch next year, \u200dwill be\u200c named DREX, it announced on Monday,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by Majdi El-Tattar, a qualified swimming coach in Gaza. Despite losing his leg in an accident at the age of nine, he now runs his own swimming school and motivates aspiring swimmers. 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