{"id":12033,"date":"2025-10-03T07:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/israels-football-status-not-on-agenda-at-fifa-council-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:35","slug":"israels-football-status-not-on-agenda-at-fifa-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israels-football-status-not-on-agenda-at-fifa-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Israels football status not on agenda at FIFA council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting of FIFA\u2019s main decision-making body comes amid growing pressure on football authorities to sanction Israel, following a United Nations commission of inquiry report last month that concluded Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>While the matter is not formally listed, it could still surface under the \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d section of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s national team are currently competing in European qualifiers for next summer\u2019s men\u2019s World Cup, while Maccabi Tel Aviv continue to feature in the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12034,"template":"default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-12033","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.||Israel\u2019s participation in international football is not on the agenda for a FIFA Council meeting taking place in Zurich this Thursday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17842,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12033\/revisions\/17842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}