Arab League Requests Argentine to Cancel Football Match with Israel in Al Quds

Cairo, MINA — The Arab League has urged Argentina to cancel its national team’s match with Israel next week, citing Israel’s violation of Palestinian people’s human rights and contravention of all relevant international conventions, WAM reported Monday

Holding the match, the Arab League said in a statement, sends a dangerous message to the Israeli government that the world is ignoring its gross violations of human rights.

The proposed match is aimed at misleading the Argentine public opinion into believing that Al Quds is the unified capital of the Jewish state, said the statement, condemning the Argentine Football Association’s approach to politicise football and ignore all international sports conventions that keep politics away from football.

The match was supposed to be held in Haifa before a decision has been made to run it in East Jerusalem in defiance of FIFA rules and regulations which prohibit any country from playing on any nation’s territory without the express permission of both parties. T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)