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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Paul Eddison

FOUND: Palestine s lone runner at the world athletics championships has a message for those back home | Mind Blowing Facts

On the day the UN commission of inquiry officially declared that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine, Mohammed Dwedar urged his people to keep safe and keep going, from Tokyo.

The 24-year-old from Jericho in the West Bank is the only Palestinian competing at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, a year after he was one of just four Palestinians at the Olympics.

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