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August 14 – Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestine FA and the Palestine Olympic Association, and the country’s sports minister was detained yesterday by Israeli forces at the Karama/King Hussein Bridge border crossing with Jordan on his return from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The Palestinian delegation’s medical officer was the first member of the Olympic party to be detained before the Israelis detained Rajoub, taking his passport, before issuing an order to return to the ‘Ofer Camp’ – a military detention centre and prison 4km outside Ramallah – for further interview.
Rajoub, 71, is a Palestine Authority minister, the body that administers the Palestinian West Bank, though now more than 60% of the country is under the military and civilian control of Israel. Rajoub’s passport was returned to him following his brief detention.
Rajoub has said that he will not comply with the order to return for questioning.
“This is an occupation authority and I will not comply with its summon,” he told Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Israelis have shown no regard or respect for diplomatic protocol with the Palestine Authority and the question is now whether they will act with a further detention of Rajoub.
The Ofer Camp detention centre has become synonymous with Israeli intelligence interrogation activities.
Rajoub’s profile has been raised by his calls for the suspension of Israeli athletes from the Olympics and the PFA’s motion at the FIFA Congress in May calling for the suspension of Israel from all international football activity.
That motion was based around the emotion of the Israeli military destruction of Gaza and the indiscriminate killing – now, more than 39,500 civilians and the wounding of 92,240 – and the football case for suspension based on Israel’s destruction of football infrastructure in Palestine, the on-going Israeli interference in preventing the Palestine FA and football community carrying out activity and the…
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Author : Paul Nicholson
Publish date : 2024-08-14 11:39:49
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