Palestinian football players, coaches, and youth in the Gaza Strip and the refugee camps of Lebanon make a special appeal to the Argentine Football Association, the Palestinian community in Argentina and supporters of Palestine in Argentina, to take action to exclude the Zionist football association from FIFA and all international sports institutions.

Palestinian coaches and youth football players talk about how the “Israeli” army destroyed football pitches, killed players and coaches, and have tried to destroy sport overall in Gaza as part and parcel of the genocide.

Meanwhile, Palestinian players from Lebanon highlight that they have been denied their right to return and forced to live as refugees for over 80 years, at the same time that “Israel” continues to bomb and invade Lebanon.

The Palestinian Sports Network calls upon the global sports movement to take immediate and urgent action to:

• Expel Israel completely and immediately from all international and continental sports federations and competitions.
• Impose a comprehensive boycott on Zionist clubs, teams, and sports institutions, and end all forms of sports normalization with them.
• Launch a broad international campaign for the freedom of Palestinian athletes imprisoned in occupation prisons.
• Hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinian sport, including the bombing of stadiums, the killing of players, and the destruction of sports facilities.
• Boycott corporations and sponsors involved in supporting the occupation or covering up its crimes.
• Exert global pressure to end U.S. and Western military, political, and financial support for the Zionist entity, as a full partner in the ongoing genocidal war against our people.
• Recognize the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, return, and self-determination as an inseparable part of sporting and human justice.