GAZA CITY— Nada Arini, born and raised at the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, learned the rules of baseball and softball from the internet. When she joined the first women’s team in the Gaza Strip three years ago, she used whatever gloves she could find and her bat was locally carved, modeled on ones she saw online.
Arini started playing softball after her father died, a few months before she joined the Amwaj Association for Development. It took her six months of training to master her swing.