Two years of war and a year of fishing, swimming, and general sea access being outright banned per Israel, and a hardy few surfers with boards and bodies intact enough to surf dare enter the water, per an Associated Press report from earlier this month. Though a tenuous ceasefire remains, the call to, and blessing of, surf is far too hard to heed for the precious few who’ve clung onto their gear, like Tahseen Abu Assi, a Gaza City surfer who told the AP that even through countless displacements over the past two years of war, he’s had his stick in tow. “If something happened to it I won’t be able to get another one,” Abu Assi said, explaining to the outlet that not one surfboard has entered the Palestinian territory since 2007. Sports equipment is among the long list of products banned in the region.…