Asked what he thought he was doing, the student explained that he was calling a friend to pick him up.

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Fatma Tanis, a student journalist who was at the finishing line, explained to Today presenter Justin Webb What she had witnessed.

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But he said he had "opened my life to Jesus" as a 19-year-old student at Cambridge University after a friend explained the cross to him following a church service.

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"Yes, there's a problem as a Palestinian to play in a Lebanese team, " explained the team's star striker Ismael Mashaal, a student who comes from the Rashidiya camp.

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