SEAToday.com, Jakarta - Palestine announced eight of their athletes will compete in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics, said Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin.
“You are not just athletes, you are also ... symbols of Palestinian resistance,” said Aghabekian, Sunday (7/14).
This year’s participation will mark the eighth time Palestine has taken part in the Olympics.
Palestine Olympic Committee Head Jibril Rajoub had said to let this occasion be a message to the world. “We want this participation to be a message from the Palestinians to the world that it is time for them to be free in their homeland,” he stated.
Rajoub reported that since the conflict in Gaza began in October, 400 athletes, coaches and sporting officials in Gaza have been killed or wounded. According to him, getting the eight athletes to compete in Paris “is already a victory”.
