Palestinian boxer Wasim Abu Sal wore a shirt themed on Israel’s Gaza attacks at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening parade. Abu Sal was among the 6,800 athletes who paraded on a 6-kilometer route in 85 boats during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the Seine River last Friday.
The front of the shirt depicts warplanes dropping bombs on children playing soccer on a sunny day, while the back of the shirt features a keffiyeh, an olive branch on one collar and Olympic rings on the other.
Abu Sal explained that the shirt represents the current situation in Palestine, where children are being killed and left alone without basic necessities. “This shirt represents the current picture in Palestine,” news agency AFP quoted Waseem Abu Sal as saying.
“This shirt represents the children who are martyred and die under the rubble,” said Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal. Abu Sal, who is the first Palestinian boxer to ever compete at the Olympics, made a statement during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics by wearing a shirt depicting children being bombed.
“The children who are martyred and die under the rubble, children whose parents are martyred and are left alone without food or water.”
Abu Sal was one of two flag-bearers for the Palestinian delegation during the rain-soaked river parade along the Seine last Friday.
