Israel participation not on Fifa agenda

Israel's information successful shot has not been included connected nan schedule for a Fifa assembly gathering successful Zurich connected Thursday.

The gathering of Fifa's main decision-making assemblage comes amid mounting unit connected shot authorities to punishment Israel aft a United Nations committee of enquiry concluded past period that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians successful Gaza.

Although nan rumor is not connected nan agenda, it could beryllium discussed nether 'miscellaneous'.

BBC Sport has contacted Fifa to inquire if Israel's information successful world shot will beryllium discussed.

Israel's nationalist squad are presently participating successful European qualifiers for adjacent summer's men's World Cup, while Israeli nine Maccabi Tel Aviv are playing successful nan Europa League.

Amnesty International is nan latest assemblage to impulse Fifa, which organises nan World Cup, and Uefa, which organises European competitions, to suspend nan Israeli Football Association (IFA) from their tournaments.

Fifa vice-president Victor Montagliani has said Uefa should make nan decision.

"First and foremost, [Israel] is simply a personnel of Uefa, nary different than I person to woody pinch a personnel of my region for immoderate reason. They person to woody pinch that," he said.

Israel are 3rd successful their World Cup qualifying group - organised by Uefa - six points down leaders Norway.

The apical squad from each group suffice automatically for nan tournament, pinch nan runners-up going into nan play-offs.

The 2026 World Cup is being co-hosted by nan US, Mexico and Canada.

US president Donald Trump's management has vowed to conflict immoderate attempts to artifact Israel from participating.

The UN study said location were reasonable grounds to reason that 4 of nan 5 genocidal acts defined nether world rule had been carried retired since nan commencement of nan warfare successful 2023.

A sheet of quality authorities experts astatine nan UN subsequently called connected Fifa and Uefa to suspend Israel's nationalist squad from world football, saying: "Sports must cull nan cognition that it is business arsenic usual."

Israel has regularly denied that its actions successful Gaza magnitude to genocide and says they are justified arsenic a intends of self-defence. Its overseas ministry called nan UN study "distorted and false".

Meanwhile, sports marque Reebok said reports that it asked nan IFA to region its logos from its squad kits are "simply not true".

"After a speech betwixt IFA president Moshe Zuares, Reebok and nan section franchisee, nan institution reversed its determination to extremity its statement pinch Israel nationalist teams, and nan teams' uniforms successful world matches will characteristic nan company's logo arsenic it has been up to now," publication an IFA connection reported by nan Telegraph., external

A spokesperson for Reebok said it "is proud of our grounds arsenic a unifier of each cultures connected and disconnected nan pitch".

They added: "We will proceed to honour our brand's and our section licensee's committedness to nan IFA. We don't do politics; we do sport."