ISRAEL’s Sayed Abu Farhi was sent off for a goal celebration where he appeared to use the corner flag to mimic shooting Palestinians with a gun in his side’s Nations League defeat by Austria.
The 20-year-old Colorado Rapids player equalised before doing the celebration which earned him a second yellow card.
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Football’s laws say a player can be booked for a goal celebration that acts in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way.
It came in a week where Israel’s actions in Gaza have made football headlines, with a campaign for the Republic of Ireland to boycott their two upcoming matches.
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The home and away games against the Irish are due to go ahead in neutral venues.
More than 73,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations (UN).
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The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Austria won the game in Linz 3-1 thanks to Romano Schmid’s opener and late strikes from Phillipp Mwene and Sasa Kalajdzic.
