Paris : The Football game between Israel and Mali saw widespread eruption of boos, anti Israel chants and Palestinian flags from the audience.
Israel with long standing war conflict against Palestine has sparked attention, concern, threats, supports and protests all over the World.
Threats and Security to Israel Team
Israeli Olympics team comprising 88 athletes faced threats ahead of Olympics 2024 ; they were threatened in a video to get a repeat of 1972 Olympics where Israel players were attacked by Palestine Militants, killing 12 victims.
As a result of these, Olympics committee provided one of the tightest securities, police escorts to Israel.
How the audience protested against Israel?
Mali and Israel saw a quality match that ended in a 1-1 draw. Israel and Mali had bitter relations back in 1973 , and Mali fans came big and strong to back their nation.
When Israel sang their National anthem, boos and anti Israeli whistles were hurled out at the athletes.
During Match, each time Israel touched the ball, fans booed them. The heat in the stands between Israel and anti-Israel fans came to that point that security officials had to intervene.
Fans waved Palestine flags in full protests against Israel athletes.
Palestine also wrote to the Olympics Committee to pull out their athletes of Olympics 2024 if Israel are allowed to participate. A final verdict still awaits.
