{"id":484494,"date":"2025-09-26T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-palestinian-football-association-demands-fifa-and-uefa-sanctions-against-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:53:01","slug":"the-palestinian-football-association-demands-fifa-and-uefa-sanctions-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/the-palestinian-football-association-demands-fifa-and-uefa-sanctions-against-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palestinian Football Association demands FIFA and UEFA sanctions against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Madrid.<\/strong> \u2013 The president of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), <strong>Jibril Rajoub<\/strong>, urgently requested that <strong>FIFA<\/strong> and <strong>UEFA<\/strong> take action against Israel, considering that football &#8220;cannot remain neutral in the face of genocide, occupation, and the systematic destruction of sports infrastructure.&#8221;\n\n<strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/el-dominicano-valerio-bodon-jugara-con-el-valencia-basket-la-supercopa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominican Valerio-Bodon will play with Valencia Basket in the Super Cup<\/a>\n\nIn letters sent to both bodies, Rajoub requested a review of the status of the Israel Football Association (IFA), the expulsion of clubs based in Palestinian territories, and the opening of an <strong>independent investigation<\/strong> into Israeli officials, players, and fans for incitement, racism, and support for military actions.\n\nThe leader recalled that since October 7, 2023, <strong>416 Palestinian footballers and officials have died<\/strong>, including more than a hundred children, and denounced that the stadiums are in ruins and the leagues interrupted. &#8220;Palestinian football faces a systematic eradication,&#8221; he said.\n\nRajoub stressed that FIFA has already made similar decisions in the past with <strong>South Africa, Yugoslavia, and Russia<\/strong>, and warned that the lack of action &#8220;erodes its own statutes and proclaimed values&#8221;.\n\n\n&#8220;The world looks to FIFA not only to enforce the rules of the game, but to uphold the principles of justice. If it doesn&#8217;t act now, history will pass a harsh judgment,&#8221; warned the PFA president, urging Gianni Infantino and Aleksander \u010ceferin to respond firmly in their upcoming executive boards.\n\nWith this, Palestine hopes that the international football community will send a clear message that &#8220;racism, apartheid, incitement, occupation and genocide have no place in sport.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid. \u2013 The president of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), Jibril Rajoub, urgently requested that FIFA and UEFA take action against Israel, considering that football &#8220;cannot remain neutral in the face of genocide, occupation, and the systematic destruction of sports infrastructure.&#8221; You may be interested in:Dominican Valerio-Bodon will play with Valencia Basket in the Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-484494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-222q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/palestina-fifa-uefa.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/palestina-fifa-uefa.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}