Palestine will ask FIFA for action against Israel at annual congress – 2024-04-20 04:32:06

He soccer It is no stranger to being affected or affected by the socio-political problems that afflict the world. Now, it has emerged that the highest authority in world football, the FIFAwill be holding its annual conference this next month and one of the topics to be discussed will be requests for action to be taken against Israel due to the conflict with Hamas by officials of Palestine.

The Palestinian Football Association’s proposal to the 211 Fifa member federations that will meet in Thailand calls for “appropriate sanctions, with immediate effect, against Israeli teams,” according to the FIFA document that was released this Wednesday, a month before the May 17 meeting.

What has Palestine said to Fifa in the document they will present at the congress next month?

The motion specifies “the violations of international laws committed by the Israeli occupation in Palestine, especially in Gaza” and cites FIFA’s legal commitment to human rights and anti-discrimination.

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“All sports infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed, seriously damaged, including the Al-Yarmouk stadium,” published the Palestinian Federation, which claims to have support for a motion by the congress of the Federations of Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Yemen.

This news comes a week after a cooperation agreement was signed between Israeli officials and CONMEBOL., so it is expected that this request will not advance in the organization and that Israel will receive global support, including from the 55 European member nations of UEFA, which it joined 30 years ago. In addition to this, the most recent request to punish Israel did not have the support of FIFA.

Palestinian football cites the example from russia after their teams were banned from international competitions by FIFA and UEFA following the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s exclusion received the support of FIFA because several UEFA members refused to face Russian rivals, including the teams of Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic — which were due to compete in the playoffs for the last World Cup in March 2022. Russia did not played and Poland advanced to the tournament in Qatar.