JERUSALEM – Two weeks ahead of Palestine’s opening game at the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar, the team is struggling to focus as war rages on in Gaza, where thousands have been killed.
Some players have lost loved ones in Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged territory in response to Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.
Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble, including stadiums, in air and artillery strikes and a ground offensive, and football fields have been used as makeshift graves for some of the dead as…
