Free Running Gaza

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Two young Palestinians embrace an art form and athletic discipline that offers an escape from life under occupation.

In the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, Mohammed and Abdallah have found a way to distract themselves from the overcrowded tenements and squalid alleyways. Both young men have trained for years to become Gaza's leading practitioners of parkour.

As much a life philosophy and an art form as an athletic discipline, parkour is the traversing and scaling of obstacles and barriers through running, jumping and vaulting. Parkour is set apart from political and religious factionalism, from violence and militancy.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/artscape/2011/06/2011619123857973866.html

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An interesting documentary looking at two young lads who set up a parkour (free running) club in Gaza. Well worth a watch, even if just to get a glimpse of everyday life for Palestinians living there.