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Ireland snub Israel with no handshakes and black armbands over Gaza
Original: Ireland snub Israel with no handshakes, black armbands for Gaza genocide
Ireland's football team snubbed Israel, withholding handshakes and wearing black armbands in a protest against what they described as genocide in Gaza. The gesture is drawing attention amid wider sporting and political tensions surrounding Israel's conduct of the war, with reactions split between support for the statement and criticism of politicising the fixture.
Why now: The Irish team's symbolic protest against the Gaza war is generating debate at a time of heightened global attention to the conflict.
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