he sports It seems that it has become the ideal place for mobilization for Palestine, which was destroyed after the Israeli attacks and which has been witnessing a fragile truce for a few weeks. The Spanish Association was active for the first time during the Tour of Spain in protest against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team, a team owned by a friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, as an example of this. com. sportwhasing. The mobilization continued every time Hebrew teams set foot on Spanish soil, in the case of the European Basketball League.
Support for Palestine does not stop there. The Basque and Catalan football teams will take advantage of the national team’s break in November to play two friendly matches with the Palestinian team of the same name, two events to demand peace and freedom for this people, devastated after Netanyahu’s genocide.
A. is expected Mass mobilizationAccording to the organizing federations. In fact, next Saturday, November 15, the football match against Euskadi and Palestine in San Mames will be the match with the largest attendance compared to the one played by Oskal Silekzewa at home, with more than 50,000 tickets sold in just three weeks. It is possible that there are more, in the absence of knowing the final data.
“This is what the international community expects of us.. “What will happen on Saturday will have a very big impact,” Basque Football Federation President Iker Guney said during a meeting with the President of the University of the Basque Country (EHU), Joxeramon Bengoechea, and Ghadeer Omar, Dean of the Faculty of Science at An-Najah National University (Nablus).
Goni stresses that the event will be “historic” and called on citizens to attend “Demanding a festive touch and calm”. This is not the first time that the Basque Federation has spoken in this regard. During the presentation of the event at the Guernica Peace Museum, he stressed that it was an event that went beyond mere sports.
Catalonia will repeat the initiative three days laterThis will take place on Tuesday, November 18, at the Luis Companez Olympic Stadium in Barcelona. “The success must be that the match can be played in Montjuïc and with as many people as possible. Obviously we want a full stadium, but we believe that a crowd of 20,000, 25,000 or 30,000 people would be a sure success,” says Catalan Sports Minister Berni Alvarez.
Other entities involved believe that number is much higher, despite it being a midweek match. The goal: also reach 50,000 participants. All proceeds from the match, which will be held in Montjuïc, will be allocated to initiatives to help the Palestinian people.
Veto on Palestinian refugees
Part of football in the coming days will focus on the Palestinian people, but this was not always the case. With veto power Included. On 4 October, Athletic Club Bilbao showed its solidarity by bringing a group of Palestinian refugees and UNRWA Euskadi representatives to its stadium, before the match against FC Mallorca. The moment was contested by La Liga, which gave no indication of what happened on the pitch and was heavily criticized for it.
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