FIFA and UEFA face growing criticism for ignoring Israeli settlement clubs, resisting calls for banning Israeli football teams, and failing to uphold international law despite repeated warnings

Palestinian footballers and clubs are planning to lodge a complaint with the ICC against the heads of world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, and its European counterpart, UEFA, for aiding Israeli war crimes and apartheid.

Israeli occupation officials plan to discuss construction of 2,006 new illegal settler units in eight settlements across the occupied West Bank, including al-Quds.

At least three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces as they expanded their deadly raids across the occupied West Bank.

Hamas condemns the Israeli parliament’s initial nod to annex the occupied West Bank, saying the move reflects the Tel Aviv regime’s colonization of Palestinian land.

Israeli forces have arrested the director of an anti-settlement monitoring group during a raid in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

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