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The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has urged the soccer's world governing body FIFA to suspend Israel over the regime’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have joined forces with 60 organizations from all over the world, calling on the world's football governing body, FIFA, to ban Israel from all international competitions over the occupying regime’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran asked FIFA and football unions to take immediate and serious actions to suspend the Israeli regime from all activities related to football.

The West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) urges suspension of the Zionist regime from all football-related activities as long as Tel Aviv sustains its ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian national soccer team has reached the 2023 AFC Asian Cup knockout rounds for the first after beating Hong Kong 3-0.

Zionist regime has martyred at least 47 Palestinian athletes since the onset of the current war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Olympic Committee says.

A Celtic fans’ group displayed Palestinian flags at a UEFA Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, despite an appeal by the Scottish club.

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Iraq's national fencing team has withdrawn from the 2023 International Fencing Federation (FIE)'s Senior World Cup in the Turkish port city of Istanbul after realizing that its members would have to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

Zionist regime’s forces have martyred a 23-year-old Palestinian soccer player, while accompanying Zionist settlers on an illegal tour of Prophet Joseph's Tomb in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian solidarity has been on full display throughout the tournament, with fans hoisting the country's colours and condemning Israeli occupation

During a live feed from outside Al Bayt Stadium in the city of Al Khor, Qatar. The fan's plea made for an uncomfortable moment of live TV.

Scores of Palestinian citizens were injured on Tuesday during a raid by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) south of the West Bank city of Nablus. 

A senior official of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says Arab fans’ refusal to speak with Israeli media reporters at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 indicates rejection of the occupying regime’s existence and normalization deals, stressing that all forms of resistance will lead to Palestine’s victory.