A report by the disciplinary committee of world football’s governing body found the IFA “failed to take meaningful action” against the club Beitar Jerusalem for “persistent and well-documented racist behaviour”. In October 2024, the Palestine Football Association reported allegations of discrimination by the IFA to FIFA, which began an investigation. FIFA did not opt for…
Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has called on Hamas to immediately release all Israeli civilian hostages without setting any conditions. In a statement on social media page, Sheikh Gumi described the abduction of hostages as a “wrong calculation,” stressing that it should not have happened in the first place. He advised Hamas to…
An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed no fewer than 26 Palestinians, including children, in a house in Shejaia in Gaza City. Medics said dozens of others were wounded in the attack that hit a multi-floor residential building in the eastern suburb of Gaza City. They added that many were still believed to be missing and…
Israeli air strikes struck Sanaa’s international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, killing six people. The World Health Organization, WHO, chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said he was at the airport during the strike, added that one of their plane’s crew members was injured. However, the Israeli military did not immediately respond to…
Lebanon’s health ministry reported that one person was killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike targeting a vehicle in the country’s south. The attack comes as Israel launched what it described as pre-emptive strikes against Hezbollah. According to a statement by the health ministry, which was carried by the National News Agency (NNA), an “Israeli…
Israeli forces were encircling southern Gaza’s main city on Wednesday, battling Hamas militants through streets and buildings in some of the most intense combat of the two-month war. The focus of the conflict has shifted into the besieged territory’s south following fierce fighting and bombardment that reduced much of the north to rubble and forced…
Israeli air strikes killed two Syrian pro-Hezbollah fighters when they hit sites belonging to the Iran-backed group near Damascus early on Saturday, a war monitor told the newsmen. The strikes near Damascus came less than 24 hours after the end of a Gaza truce between Hezbollah ally Hamas and Israel. “Two Syrian fighters working for…