Among them is Guluma Bayi, 38, who had walked more than an hour and a half, leading his two donkeys to the clinic.
Players like Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia were signed for an estimated $240m combined in a squad assembled at spectacular expense.Meanwhile, Inter has been savvy in the market — signing older players and picking up free agents to put together a team that has reached two Champions League finals in three years —
losing to Man City in 2023— and won an Italian title in that time.PSG’s only previous final was in 2020, a 1-0 loss to Bayern Munich.
It was a semifinalist in 2021 and 2024. Elimination in the round of 16 in 2022 and 2023 preceded the decision by President Nasser Al-Khelaifi to change his transfer strategy.This year is only the second time since 2011 that three-time champion Inter has advanced beyond the round of 16.
World Cup winner ‘missing’ a Champions League medal
Inter last won the Champions League in 2010 under Jose Mourinho.Sadly, the white shrouds wrapped around the bodies of Gaza’s children continue to mount.
Yaqeen Hammad is now one of those shrouded and buried children.Just 11 years old, Yaqeen was one of Gaza’s youngest social media influencers. In her short life, she embodied what Palestinian scholar and poet Rafeef Ziadah called Palestinian ways in “teaching life”. Yaqeen made desserts. She delivered food. She brought happiness to children who had lost everything. In one of her videos, while preparing food, she told the world: “In Gaza, we don’t know the word impossible.” This was her crime.
On May 23, the same day Alaa’s children were incinerated, Israel decided that Yaqeen was somehow a threat to its existence. Multiple air raids hit her neighbourhood in Deir el-Balah and ended her life. She was one of 18,000 Palestinian children killed since October, one of 1,300+ since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, and one of dozens in just 48 hours.Commenting on the moral double standards applied to Palestinians, Dan Sheehan, editor at Literary Hub, noted: “If an 11-year-old Israeli influencer – a girl who delivered food and toys to displaced children – had been killed, the Empire State Building would be lit up for her. Her face would be on the homepage of every major US news outlet. Her name would be on the tongue of every politician.”