TEHRAN - Three hundred Palestinian athletes have been killed since the beginning of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to the secretary general of Palestine Sport Media Association.
This crime is being committed in line with the direct targeting of Palestinian athletes by the Israeli regime, either by assassinating or arresting them or destroying sports infrastructures, Musfata Siam said, Islamic republic news agency (IRNA) citing Aljazeera reported.
He added that more than 90 per cent of sports facilities in the southern parts of Gaza have been destroyed since the beginning of the brutal aggression.
The Palestinian Football Association has asked the international and continental federations to take action regarding the Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinian sports and stressed the need to take punitive measures against it, Siam noted.
So far, Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 38,584 people, including over 15,000 children, in the besieged territory. - BERNAMA-IRNA