You may not know that the death toll of Palestinian footballers since October 2023 is now at 412. The figures, provided by the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), relate to players at all level, including 103 children, who make up one sub-section of the wider picture: almost 60,000 deaths in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. This includes those killed in air strikes, shootings, and in the grips of a worsening enforced famine.
Suddenly, that is changing, but so late as to become a meaningless, hollow embarrassment. At Wednesday night’s Super Cup between Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain, players lined up alongside a Uefa banner reading: “Stop killing children. Stop killing civilians.”
Ceferin is the head of an organisation that has taken no sanctions against Israeli clubs or the national team.
Palestinian armed groups still hold 50 hostages, and around 20 of them are thought to still be alive, adding further complexities to how the sporting body should respond.
Khan Yunis Stadium, reduced to rubble by air strikes (Photo: Getty)
The PFA says Al-Obeid was shot dead by the Israel Defence Forces while waiting in a queue for aid – another story which might have gone under the radar, were it not for Mohamed Salah responding to a tweet from Uefa’s official social media channels.
Salah, the world’s most high-profile Arab footballer, replied: “Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?”
Here is where that logic – that Israeli football is a separate concern, without fault in terms of abiding by international football regulations – falls down.
Mohammed Barakat, a Palestine international killed in an Israeli air strike (Photo: Getty)A decade of Palestinian FA (PFA) legal challenges have not removed them. The PFA is also embroiled in a case with Fifa, asking Israel to be expelled from international competition, citing the example of Russia who are currently banned from World Cups and European Championships.
A legal representative attached to the case told The i Paper last year it was a case of deliberately “kicking it into the long grass”.
They were at least spared a security and diplomatic nightmare because Israel failed to qualify for Euro 2024 – Israel has not reached a major tournament since the 1970 World Cup.
Meanwhile across Gaza and the West Bank, 288 sports facilities – including most of the main stadiums used by the top two divisions of Palestinian football – have been reduced to rubble. Sources on the ground estimate it will take at least a decade to rebuild them. Other grounds are being used as refugee camps; Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City was briefly used by Israeli forces as a detention and interrogation centre.
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Such cases may increasingly struggle to attract attention now that more journalists have been killed (242, per the UN), than in the First and Second World Wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s combined.
You might not hear many of those stories in detail, but nor are you likely to hear of any action being taken against it from the football authorities. But at least there was a banner.
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