Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums by Rachel Lavin, Hannah McCarthy

• Most of the boys playing for Al Helal Football Club, who once travelled to Ireland are now displaced in tents across Gaza, with little access to play football, said Zoe Lawlor, chairperson of the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and co-ordinator of Gaza Action Ireland.
• “Sport is so important as an outlet to any young people but especially to those living under siege and occupation and now surviving genocide,” said Lawlor, who had visited Al Helal Club in Gaza as part of an Irish sports outreach programme in 2013.
• “Gaza was so beautiful even under siege. To see every aspect of civil society destroyed by Israel is horrendous,” she said. “It is a crime … what has been done.