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Open-air soccer game screenings come to Gaza City

A giant screen at al-Qutaibah Square in Gaza City has been showing the UEFA Europa League matches, easing the suffering of Gazans amid the power outage and unemployment crises.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Al-Majd Advertising Solutions set up a giant screen operated by a power generator in al-Qutaibah Square in southern Gaza City last month to show the UEFA Europa League matches.

After the end of the soccer league and with the start of the holy month of Ramadan in late May, organizers plan on screening religious and historical films and documentaries.

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