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The IFA rejected that.<br \/>\nThe request for sanctions against the IFA comes two years after FIFA\u2019s decision to suspend Russia from international competitions over its invasion of Ukraine.<br \/>\n\u201cFIFA cannot afford to remain indifferent to these violations or to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, just as it did not remain indifferent to numerous precedents,\u201d PFA President Jibril Rajoub said.<br \/>\n\u201cHow much more must the Palestinian football family suffer for FIFA to act with the same urgency and severity as it did in other cases? Does FIFA consider some wars to be more important than others and some victims to be more significant?\u201d<br \/>\nSince an Oct. 7 cross-border raid by militant group Hamas that Israel says killed more than 1,200 people, the Gaza offensive has left more than 35,000 Palestinians dead, according to Gaza health officials. Israel says its strikes are targeted at militants.<br \/>\nRajoub said 193 Palestinian players had been killed, football infrastructure destroyed, its leagues suspended and its national team required to play World Cup qualifiers abroad.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2018CYNICAL, POLITICAL AND HOSTILE\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nThe proposal was sent to FIFA in March and added to the Congress agenda with the support of the Algerian, Jordanian, Syrian and Yemeni federations.<br \/>\nThe Asian Football Confederation gave its backing on Thursday for action against Israel.<br \/>\nIFA chief Shino Moshe Zuares said the proposal was based on motives and ambitions that \u201chave nothing to do with the spirit of sports or the FIFA value of separating sports from politics\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cToday, maybe more than ever, I believe that football must be a key element in healing the fractures and the wounds, helping us and everyone to recover,\u201d he told the Congress.<br \/>\n\u201cYet, once again, we are facing a cynical, political, and hostile attempt by the PFA to harm Israeli football.<br \/>\n\u201cI am holding myself back and will not speak about the true motives out of respect for this institution,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nInfantino expressed extreme shock over the Oct. 7 attacks and the offensives in Gaza and said due to the \u201cobvious sensitivity of the issue\u201d, independent legal experts would be brought in urgently to analyse the Palestinian allegations.<br \/>\nThose findings would be referred to the FIFA Council, its main decision-making body outside of the Congress, to convene an extraordinary meeting in July and take appropriate decisions, he said.<br \/>\n(Reuters)<br \/>\nRead more:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-in-cyprus-com wp-block-embed-in-cyprus-com\"><\/figure>\n<p>Israel. 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