When Ferran Torres, the striker of the Spanish team, catapulted the ball with his left foot into the back of the Argentinian net, giving his country the Football World Cup, he caused excitement well beyond the Spanish borders. Amid the rubble of Gaza, as screenings of the World Cup matches continued despite Israel’s July 7 assassination of Mohammed Al Wahidi, a Palestinian aid worker who organized them, the crowds rose in one cry.
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