UN rapporteur calls on UEFA to make sport ‘apartheid and genocide free’
The UN special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories called on the European football governing body (UEFA) on Sunday to expel the Zionist entity from competitions over its war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
“Time to expel its killers from competitions, UEFA,” Francesca Albanese said in a post on X, in response to UEFA’s repost bidding farewell to a Palestinian football player who was killed in the Zionist occupation’s genocidal war on Gaza.
“Let’s make sport apartheid and genocide free. One ball, one kick at a time,” she added.
In a post on X, UEFA bid farewell to Palestinian football player Suleiman al-Obeid, known as the ‘Palestinian Pelé’.
The post described al-Obeid as: “A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.”
According to WAFA news agency, 39 athletes, scouts, and youth from the Palestinian sports and scouting movement were killed in the past month alone, bringing the total number of those killed since the start of the ongoing genocide to more than 656.
