Ainle Ó Cairealláin

I think that that's more obvious now than ever it was before.

So the gym is based in the IDA refugee camp, as you mentioned, which is in Bethlehem.

There are around 5,000 Palestinian refugees living in the camp.

It's hemmed in by the apartheid wall and seven or eight military watchtowers, massive military base.

There's about 20 security cameras there.

looking in on the camp and like everything that happens inside the camp is surveilled by the occupations military and they invade the camp on a regular basis and take people out of their beds at three o'clock in the morning.

Kids, oftentimes there's huge issues with the water supply in the camp.

Whenever I was there last year,

There was no running water for three months nearly in the camp, which is a huge issue.

Well, for anybody who's been to Palestine will already be aware of this, but you can tell a Palestinian house in the West Bank because it has got water tanks on top of the house.

And when the water is running, the tanks fill up and then you use that water when there's no water coming in from the mains.

But once that water runs out, then...

The tanks are empty.

You have to go out with a bucket and fill it from the tap on the street and bring it back to the house.

And a lot of the families didn't have water and were filling buckets up and bringing it back.

And you're talking about water, like you need water for cleaning, you need it for food, you're cooking, everything.

And similar with the electricity supply is sometimes patchy out there.

And there's a lot of issues within the camp in terms of health.

There's very high levels of diabetes and high levels of high blood pressure.

And the gym really came about from my first visit to the camp.