First female boxing club opens in Gaza
STORY: First female boxing club opens in Gaza
DATELINE: Dec. 26, 2022
LENGTH: 00:02:08
LOCATION: Gaza
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of girls boxing in Gaza
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): OSAMA AYOUB, Co-founder & coach of the club
3. various of girls boxing
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): HALA AYOUB, Boxing player
5. various of girls boxing
6. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): HALA AYOUB, Boxing player
STORYLINE:
The first-ever female boxing club, the Palestinian Center of Boxing for Women, recently opened in Gaza, where the sport is mostly popular with men.
Osama Ayoub, a co-founder, came up with the idea of setting up such a club six years ago and started to train a group of girls in 2017.
SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): OSAMA AYOUB, Co-founder and coach of the club
"I came up with the idea to create a female boxing team six years ago when I participated in a boxing competition in Algeria, where I saw the fantastic performance given by Arab women of various ages. At first, I started training at small places and later trained
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