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SvennoJ on 03 September 2024
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Palestine Football Association calls for FIFA to address Israeli violence at games



The PFA has written a letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino expressing “grave concern over a disturbing incident of racism and violence within the Israeli football league”.

The association said there exists “a systemic issue of anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and Islamophobic racism that has been persistently overlooked by the Israeli Football Association”.

In the letter, the PFA specified an incident that took place on Sunday when supporters of Hapoel Be’er Sheva, an Israeli professional football club, stormed the field with batons, targeting players, staff and fans of Bnei Sakhnin, which represents the Palestinian minority in Israel.

Hapoel Be’er Sheva supporters chanted against the Prophet Mohammed and called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including the burning of their villages and towns.

UN wants independent probe into deaths of Israeli captives

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of six Israeli captives whose bodies were found at the weekend by the Israeli army in Gaza.

“We are horrified by reports that Palestinian armed groups summarily executed six Israeli hostages, which would constitute a war crime,” Turk’s office said on X, adding that Turk “calls for independent, impartial and transparent investigation and for perpetrators to be held to account”.



Add that to the countless other requests for independent investigations... Still waiting on an independent investigation of Oct 7, all the hospital and school attacks, all the aid worker and journalist killings, Hind Rijab, all the mass graves, all the bombings of humanitarian encampments, and so on and so on.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 03 September 2024