'We love life': Gaza's war-weary footballers play on

The referee blows the whistle and the penalty-taker fires the ball into the makeshift goal, sparking wild celebrations as spectators swarm him. For fans and players, Tuesday's match in the Jabalia refugee camp was a welcome distraction from the pangs of hunger and exhaustion endured over nearly 300 days of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Referee Rami Mustafa Abu Hashish told AFP that football helped "restore a semblance of life" to Jabalia, devastated by Israeli bombardments and fighting which have laid waste to schools...