Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, who also heads the Palestine Football Association (PFA), on Tuesday accused FIFA, the governing body of soccer, of caving to Israeli pressure.
Rajoub, along with several anti-Israel organizations, has long attempted to force FIFA to ban six Israeli teams based in Judea and Samaria, claiming that their presence there is in breach of FIFA statutes, which forbids another member association playing on another territory without permission.
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