Earlier this month, Palestinian footballers, clubs and rights groups submitted a 120-page file to the International Criminal Court accusing FIFA President Gianni Infantino and UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin of “aiding and abetting war crimes … and crimes against humanity.” The complaint cites both organisation’s inclusion of Israeli clubs based in settlements and the legitimisation of settlement expansion which is also linked to the forced transfer of Palestinians. The document states that Infantino and Čeferin are acting with full knowledge of how Israel’s practices amount to war crimes and also of having cooperated with Israel and the US in granting continued participation of Israel’s settlement clubs. 

FIFA’s next step was to announce its collaboration with the Board of Peace “to actively source investment from international leaders and institutions harnessing the power of football to support recovery, stability and long-term development in........

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