NFL’s Azeez Al-Shaair honours Palestinian children for fifth straight week

Al-Shaair’s eyeblack carried the name of Maryam Ghanem, a girl in Gaza who was forced to watch her mother burn alive.American football player Azeez Al-Shaair has honoured a Palestinian child for the fifth consecutive week by writing the name of Maryam Ghanem, a girl who was orphaned in Gaza last week, on his eyeblack for his team’s latest National Football League game.Al-Shaair carried Ghanem’s name on the black tape across his nose during the Houston Texans’ fixture against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom, on Sunday.Ghanem is a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Gaza who was forced to watch her mother burn alive after an Israeli strike hit their home in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City on Wednesday.[Screengrab/Instagram/a_train2_]Local journalists managed to rescue her after hearing her cries as flames engulfed her home in an apartment building that was struck early that morning. Ghanem was later identified as the sole survivor of her family.She was moved to hospital for treatment. “My hand hurts,” Ghanem said as she lay shell-shocked on a hospital bed, suffering from severe burns, and clutching her doll close to her.Maryam lost her father at...