Life after amputation: Gaza women find recovery through football
Palestinian women in Gaza who have lost limbs during Israel’s genocidal war are using football as a way of recovering.
![Gaza's first women's amputee football team [Lina Abu Zayed/AL Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG-20260709-WA0150-1784306274.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Palestinian women in Gaza who have lost limbs during Israel’s genocidal war are using football as a way of recovering.
![Gaza's first women's amputee football team [Lina Abu Zayed/AL Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG-20260709-WA0150-1784306274.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)




![Touma Jabara gave birth to her baby daughter, Duaa, at the Maternity Hospital in Omdurman [Mohammed Mirghani/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/download-1783254620.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![Gilgo Serial Killer Rex Heuermann inside Judge Timothy Mazzei's courtroom at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York, US, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. [James Carbone/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1781730427.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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