{"id":303895,"date":"2022-12-28T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=303895"},"modified":"2022-12-28T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:35:53","slug":"first-palestinian-referee-at-fifa-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/first-palestinian-referee-at-fifa-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"First Palestinian referee at FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heba Saadia<br \/>\n JERUSALEM, PALESTINE<br \/>\nWorld football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women\u2019s World Cup matches. The official Palestinian News &#038; Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Heba Saadia will make the calls at the Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20, 2023.<br \/>\nThe ninth Women\u2019s World Cup, which will be held by Australia and New Zealand, is the first to be co-organised by two nations and the first to include 32 countries.<br \/>\nFor many years, Israeli forces restricted sports activities in Palestine by damaging sports facilities, denying travel permits to football players from Gaza to cross through Israel into the occupied West Bank to play in the local championships, and killing football players.<br \/>\nLast week, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on FIFA to condemn the Israeli killing of Ahmad Atef Mustafa Daraghma, a Palestinian football player, who died from very serious wounds resulting from Israeli army gunfire.<br \/>\nShtayyeh strongly slammed the attack that resulted in the killing of Daraghma, a football player with the Thaqafi Football Team of Tulkarm, who was hit by live rounds in the back and feet as confrontations erupted when a sizable Israeli army force swept into the eastern part of Nablus to provide protection for Israeli settlers who stormed Joseph\u2019s Tomb.<br \/>\nThe prime minister called on international rights organisations to take responsibility to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes to stop the aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heba Saadia JERUSALEM, PALESTINE World football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women\u2019s World Cup matches. The official Palestinian News &#038; Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Heba Saadia will make the calls at the Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand from July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Palestinian referee at FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/first-palestinian-referee-at-fifa-womens-world-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Palestinian referee at FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heba Saadia JERUSALEM, PALESTINE World football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women\u2019s World Cup matches. 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