Football players from the youth teams of Israel and Poland observed a minute’s silence after the starting whistle during the match in Lodz, Poland, due to UEFA’s ban on observing one minute silence before the match.
Polish footballers beat the Israelis with a score of 2:1.
After the starting whistle, the players of the Israeli national team played the ball in the center of the field, after which they stopped together with the Polish players and observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the armed conflict Palestinian-Israeli. UEFA did not allow teams to observe a minute’s silence before the match.
The escalation of the long-running Palestinian-Israeli conflict began on the morning of October 7. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a speech to the nation that the country was in a state of war.
Source : MatchTV
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