Flag of Palestine flutter to celebrate the team Morocco qualify for the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup, Tuesday (6/12) evening WIB. Morocco beat Spain on penalties with a final score of 3-0.
The action of raising the Palestinian flag was not the only time the Moroccan team carried out. By beating Canada in the group stage last week, Hakimi Cs also raised the Palestinian flag.
Not only Moroccan players, spectators and fans were also seen waving Palestinian flags in every corner of the stands of the Education City Stadium.
Quoted by AFP, the social media footage showed a number of Moroccan players waving Palestinian flags alongside their Moroccan flags. They took a group photo with the Palestinian flag on the pitch after the match ended.
Moroccan striker Abdul Razzaq Hamdallah also carried a Palestinian flag. he showed it to the stadium and waved it in front of the fans.
Morocco made history by qualifying for the quarter-finals for the first time. They became the second country on the African continent to qualify for the quarterfinals of the World Cup after Ghana.
Morocco is a Muslim majority country which is quite preoccupied with the issue of normalizing Palestine. It condemns the Israeli invasion and fights for solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile the people of Qatar have also opened the space for Muslim countries, both in the Middle East and North Africa, to express their support for Palestine.
The support that Morocco did not only in last night’s match. Fans also expressed their support when Tunisia faced France last week, when spectators stormed the pitch carrying Palestinian flags.
World Cup host Qatar has no ties to Israel and remains a supporter of the Palestinians’ decades-long struggle for statehood.
Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Provoking a strong reaction from some Gulf and Middle Eastern countries. Meanwhile, some 250,000 Palestinians live in Qatar, which has a population of about 2.9 million.
(ain/jun)
