Human Rights Watch accuses FIFA of financially supporting Israel

Palestinian youths hold red cards and placards reading in Arabic, “Israel out of FIFA” during a demonstration against the Israel Football Federation

Human Rights Watch said the world's football governing body, FIFA, has been sponsoring football matches played on “stolen” land in the occupied West Bank. 

The New York-based rights organization made the statement in a Monday report.

“By allowing games to be contested there, world football’s governing body, FIFA, is engaging in business activity that supports Israeli settlements,” said the report.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al Quds, all Palestinian territories.

Source: MENA