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The sixth annual wheelchair basketball tournament kicked off in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday with 11 teams vying for the trophy, Anadolu reported.

Iraq's national fencing team has withdrawn from the 2023 International Fencing Federation (FIE)'s Senior World Cup in the Turkish port city of Istanbul after realizing that its members would have to face Israeli fencers.

The Kuwaiti player Abdulaziz Alshatti on Friday withdrew from the world fencing championship held in Türkiye after he refused to play with an Israeli contestant.

Rugby's global governing body, World Rugby, has announced that the South African Rugby Union's (SARU) decision to exclude the Israeli rugby team from the international competitions was not discriminatory move.

Israeli chess players were boycotted 12 times by Tunisian competitors at the FIDE World School Chess Championships which took place recently in Greece.

The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has chosen Argentina to host the U-20 World Cup, after stripping Indonesia of its right to stage the tournament due to its refusal to host the Israeli team.

A prominent Qatari pro-Palestine group has issued a statement condemning the participation of 17 Israeli athletes at this year’s World Judo Championship slated to take place in Doha next May.

Abdul Salam Haneyya, Assistant Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports in Gaza, hailed Lebanese runner Mazen Chreim for refusing to compete with an Israeli runner in an international race competition in Poland.

Mazen Chreim, a Lebanese runner has withdrawn from the 200 meter competition of the World Masters Athletics after he was placed in a group that included an Israeli runner.

The Palestine Higher Council of Youth and Sports expressed its regret over FIFA’s decision to strip Indonesia of the hosting rights of this year's Under-20 World Cup in response to nationwide protests against Apartheid Israel.

FIFA stripped Indonesia of this year’s Under-20 World Cup, which was supposed to take place in Indonesia from May 20 to June 11, as a result of Jakarta's refusal to host Israel's team.

In a show of strong solidarity with the Palestinian nation and outright rejection of normalization with the Tel Aviv regime, Yemeni freestyle wrestler Ebrahim al-Shabami has pulled out of the 2023 Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane in France to avoid facing an Israeli opponent.