Palestine gets ‘biggest cheer of the night’ at Paralympics opening ceremony, says to TV presenterChannel 4
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00:00Big strong performer, Palestine.
00:03Palestine.
00:05Big cheer for the small delegation from Palestine.
00:10That's the biggest cheer of the night, actually, for a single country.
00:15Very interesting, and of course there was also a last minute call from the Palestinians to exclude Israel,
00:21which was rejected again by the IPC.
00:24And Andrew Parsons, the president, explained that the reason Israel would not be treated anything like the way Russia was over war
00:34was because of the different ways the countries were treating the Paralympic movement.
00:38They claimed that Russia had used sports to promote their invasion,
00:42but both Palestine and Israel had respected the neutrality of the games and therefore would be allowed to compete.