Fitness Trainer Turns Aid Containers Into Weights to Train Women Inside Gaza Displacement Tent
11:33 23.08.2026 (Updated: 11:44 23.08.2026)
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Fitness Trainer Turns Aid Containers Into Weights to Train Women Inside Gaza Displacement Tent
After losing her gym in Rafah—which she had built at a cost of nearly $250,000 just a year before the war—Iman Al-Mughair, a member of the Palestinian Bodybuilding Federation, decided to continue her mission inside displacement tents.
"Having lost everything, I asked myself, 'How can I start over?' And that's when the idea came. To start training right from the tent," she told Sputnik.
Al-Mughair realized that displaced Palestinians could not afford to buy dumbbells. She then came up with the idea of using everyday items found in every tent—empty cooking oil cans filled with sand—as alternative weights for training. Stones and chickpea tins could also serve the same purpose.
"My goal was not so much physical conditioning but a therapeutic effect. To give them mental strength," the professional trainer concluded.
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