The Palestinian football federation calls for a vote at Fifa's congress to suspend Israel over the war in Gaza.
Fifa will carry out a legal assessment before it makes a decision on whether to agree to Palestine's call to suspend the Israeli federation over the war in Gaza.
"How much more must the Palestine football family suffer for Fifa to act with the same severity and urgency as it did in other cases?" PFA president Jibril Rajoub said. The war in Gaza began after a 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people. More than 252 others were taken hostage.
"Seven months after the terrible day, when football matches cannot be played in large parts of Israel, north and south, and over 130 Israelis are still being held in Gaza, it is injustice that even in these circumstances we find ourselves fighting for our basic right to be part of the game."
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