Palestine will be represented by six athletes at the Olympic Games.

Palestine, which is going through one of the most dramatic moments in its history, will be represented at the Olympic Games by six athletes, one of whom is a woman, the country’s Olympic Committee announced on Monday.

The Middle Eastern nation will be represented in swimming, judo, boxing, shooting and taekwondo, with the possibility of competing in track and field.

Fighter Omar Ismail was the only one to qualify directly for the Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is citing a July 8 deadline for confirmation of attendance for any comment.

The remaining actors received spots from the IOC’s universal quota, which is usually distributed to poorer countries with unstable sports programs, according to the Palestinian Olympic Committee’s technical director, Nader Jayyousi.

The country will be represented by Jorge Antonio Salhe in shooting, Yazan Al-Bawwab, who has already been to Tokyo 2020, Valeri Tarazi in swimming, Fares Badawi in judo and Waseem Abusal in boxing.

Palestine was represented by five athletes at Tokyo 2020, namely in athletics, swimming, weightlifting and judo.

According to the Palestinian authorities, about 300 athletes, judges, coaches and other people working in sports have died since the beginning of Israeli aggression in the war against the political and military organization Hamas.

Among those victims was long-distance runner Majed Abu Marahil, the first Palestinian to compete in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, who died of kidney failure after failing to receive treatment in the Gaza Strip and being unable to be evacuated to Egypt.

The deep, widespread destruction of Gaza has affected many sports infrastructures, and only a few athletes have been able to leave to continue training, while in the West Bank the situation is less dramatic.

In the history of the Olympic Games, only 26 athletes have represented Palestine at the largest sporting event on the planet.

Israel’s most brutal incursion into the Gaza Strip to date came after Hamas’ assault on Israeli soil left more than 1,100 people dead and nearly 200 hostages taken.

Following this aggression, on October 7, Israel launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip that has already killed some 38,000 people, injured more than 86,000 and left 10,000 missing, most of them civilians, and created a humanitarian catastrophe that is destabilizing the entire region.

The conflict has also displaced nearly two million people, plunging the overcrowded and impoverished Palestinian enclave into a serious humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a “situation of catastrophic famine” claiming casualties – “the highest number ever recorded” in a UN study of global food security.