GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Rajab Sarraj and Hassan Skaik from the Gaza Strip are preparing to launch the first women’s sports academy by June 2017. This unprecedented initiative aims to help revive women's sports in Gaza and will allow girls and women, between the ages of 4 and 40, to practice sports and become professional athletes.
Sarraj, the director of sales at Wataniya Mobile, told Al-Monitor that this is an athletic investment project that, amid a current absence of female sports clubs, will now give women in Gaza the chance to practice sports. This would allow them to blow off some steam and get rid of the stress caused by the hard political and economic conditions in the Gaza Strip.