Rimas Dellul, a 16-year-old girl who was unable to attend school and experience her childhood during the period of intense Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, turned to skateboarding, an extreme sport, to compensate for this deficiency, Anadolu reports.

Dellul, who lives with her family of nine in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, moved many times before the ceasefire, like many residents of Gaza. While their home was damaged by rocket attacks, it was not destroyed, but Dellul lost many relatives and friends in the attacks.

Like 785,000 students in Gaza, Dellul was deprived of her right to education for two years due to Israeli attacks.

During this period, when life mostly stopped, the young woman decided to fill this great void with sport.

A skateboard, which she received as a birthday present when she was only 9 years old, became a tool to cope with life.

Dellul, who started going to Yarmouk Stadium, progressed from a hobby to a professional level in the sport, and also began to teach skateboarding to other girls who, like her, were deprived of education.

The daughter of re explained that her family initially did not want her to go to Yarmouk Stadium to skateboard because of the attacks, but after much insistence, they allowed her.

Dellul stated that many of her friends from the team they formed had migrated to the south, leaving her alone, but despite everything, she continued to skateboard even on the roof of her house.

She explained that before the attacks An Israeli, she was involved in sports as a hobby, playing soccer and participating in running races, but the losses and destruction she experienced in the past two years made her even more connected to sports.

The athlete stated that her friends and all the children in the area were psychologically affected by the forced displacement, and many of them were left homeless, saying: “They actually have to go to school, but because there is no school, they come here to learn skateboarding”. Dellul pointed out that not being able to go to school for two years left a big gap in her life, and she expressed her desire to get a scholarship to study outside of Gaza. “Even if you’re going to die, do what you want. Work until the end. This game made us forget so much we played with the children, we forgot that there were bombings,” said Dellul, emphasizing that sports, despite limited resources, offered children a chance to breathe and live, even if only for a short time.

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Source: prizrenpost