The game between Kosovo and Israel, qualifying for the 2024 European Football Championship, was postponed due to the absence of the Israeli national team due to the conflict with the Islamist movement Hamas, UEFA said this Thursday.
European football’s governing body said a “new date will be announced in due course” for the Group I qualifier scheduled for Sunday in Pristina after Israeli authorities denied the national team permission to travel outside the country.
Last Sunday, a day after the Hamas attack, UEFA announced the postponement of all games scheduled in Israel “for the next few weeks”, the first of which was against Switzerland, scheduled for November 15, as well as qualifying for the 2024 European Championship. Championship.
The Swiss top the group with two points more than Romania and three points over Israel in second and third respectively, followed by Belarus (fourth), Kosovo (fifth) and Andorra (sixth), having played six games .
On Saturday, Hamas launched a surprise attack into Israel dubbed Al-Aqsa Storm, firing thousands of rockets and invading armed militias by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel air-bombed several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in an operation dubbed Operation Iron Swords.
During the invasion of Israeli territory, Hamas took more than a hundred civilians and military hostages, whom they took to the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s military response to declare war on Hamas following the attack has caused the deaths of more than 900 people in the Gaza Strip, according to recent reports.
On the Israeli side, a senior military official said the death toll had exceeded a thousand.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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