A modern-day Samson is performing feats of physical strength in Gaza.

"Go Samson go," yelled a crowd in the Palestinian enclave cheering on Mohammad Baraka as the 20-year-old with the Biblical nickname used a rope around his chest to pull a 15-ton petrol tanker.

Baraka, who prefers to be known as "The Incredible", perhaps because he lacks the original Samson's long hair, has been putting on displays in his hometown of Deir al-Balah for the past two years, earning a reputation as the strongest man in the Gaza Strip.