Middle East Monitor
clear
Free Subscription
Middle East Monitor

Creating new perspectives since 2009

Middle East Monitor

Overcoming the elements: 10 years since the West Bank got its first skatepark

Skateboarder Chalie Davis launched the Skatepal project, including building a skatepark in the occupied West Bank over an area of 700 square metres in Nablus

August 17, 2023 at 1:03 pm

Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]
Young Palestinian kids ride on skateboards at Rose Park, which opened in 2015, the park is the largest skate park in the West Bank with an area of 700 square meters, in Asira ash-Shamaliya, Nablus, West Bank on August 15, 2023 [Bruno Thevenin/Anadolu Agency]

READ: ‘Radical’ in Ramallah, the Palestinian skateboard scene

Latest news

See all
An evening with former Tunisian president Dr Moncef Marzouki

Trending