The man building swimming pools in Gaza

加沙建设游泳池的人

Today in Focus

2026-07-22

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Journalist Amjed Tantesh talks about his project to teach Gaza’s children how to swim. With reporting from our chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the man teaching Gaza's children to swim again.

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  • I'm standing now in the beach in the Albalah in front of a swimming school

  • that has been built by hand on the beach.

  • It's separated from the open sea using large charborine sandbags to protect it from the waves.

  • It gives children a safe place to learn how to swim in the sea.

  • It's a sunny morning on the beach in Deir al-Balakh, a city in the Gaza Strip.

  • And Seham Tantesh, a young journalist,

  • is surrounded by children playing in the water as they wait for their swimming lessons to start.

  • The daily lessons that are taught here on the beach attract hundreds of children every week.