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Gaza Parkour Team is one of the first teams that appeared in the Arabian world, Gaza Parkour Team began at the end of 2005, after watching the documentary film Jump London.

The beginning
The story of the Gaza Parkour team began in 2005 when  Abdallah Inshasi was watching a documentary film about parkour. This film was shown on Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, which was shown after it was translated into Arabic. It was talking about parkour, explaining it in detail, telling about its history, its founder, and everything related to this sport. This sport attracted Abdallah’s attention and dominated his thinking, so he started thinking about practicing this sport, even though he was practicing gymnastics. Abdullah started searching for this sport on the Internet and watching videos of this sport in order to get to know it more and learn how to practice it, knowing that he loves excitement and adventure. And taking risks, he found in this sport everything he was looking for in terms of excitement, suspense, unloading of internal energies, and the repression he is experiencing as a result of the conditions that the residents of the Gaza Strip are going through.

At that time, Abdallah started looking for a partner to practice this sport with him. He found his friend Mohammed Al Jakhbir, one of his friends whom he knew in the early stages of middle school, Mohammed was playing basketball and was going to the school where he played basketball. He met Abdallah while he was going to Practicing this sport in UNRWA schools, so he said to him, “There is a modern sport that has recently appeared, called parkour.” Mohammed was surprised. The video clips for this sport, so Mohammed liked this sport and joined Abdallah and the two of them started practicing this sport in the areas from which the Israeli forces withdrew during that period, and they were hindered by the lack of capabilities that caused them a lot of injuries. And equipped and then applied in the streets and places suitable for practicing this sport, they began to think of using sandbags and a group of large cars tires as barriers to apply skills to them and reduce Injury rate.

After that, Mohammed and Abdallah decided to establish the first team for this sport in Palestine, and it was named after the Gaza Parkour team, and made a special logo for the team, made some video clips, and published them on YouTube, but they did not receive anyone’s attention at first, but with the progress of their level in this sport, determination and strong will began to attract the attention of the media and the press towards them, so a group of satellite channels reported on this team, the most important of which were MBC, BBC Arabic, Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera and a wide range of other channels and media, the last of which was Al-Jazeera English, which A documentary film was made about the team, and the team was accredited in a group of sites that are considered as federations for this sport as the first team in Palestine. The Gaza Parkour team continues its efforts in building and developing the team by training a group of young people on this sport and spreading this sport throughout Palestine through social sites e-mail and other electronic means of communication. The team sets in its future plans for the establishment of a special federation for parkour players in Palestine and the Gaza Strip.