1.- Malak Musleh was a 20-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza who practiced boxing.
2.-She lived in Gaza City with her family, her mother Noor, her father Tareq, and her siblings. Her sister Rawand also liked boxing.
3.- At the age of 10, she lived through the 2014 war on Gaza, where she suffered greatly from the terror of Israeli attacks. She witnessed the destruction of Gaza four times, the penultimate one in 2021.
4.- Malak started boxing at the age of 18, at the school founded by Jamal Al Farr with Osama Ayoub as coach. They set up the first women's boxing championship in 2020. The documentary “Left Hook” covers this period.
5.-On June 30, 2025, despite the total siege and constant attacks in different areas of Gaza, she met her friend at Al Baqa café, a very popular café next to the port of Gaza that was a meeting place for journalists, artists, students, and families, as it was one of the places with stable internet.
6.- Shortly after midday, without warning and despite not being an evacuation zone, an aircraft dropped two bombs on Al Baqa café, killing 41 people, including Malak and her friend, and injuring around 72.
Drawing by Carmen Fernández
Full history to print: 045_Malak_english.pdf
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