{"id":293473,"date":"2023-11-08T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=293473"},"modified":"2023-11-08T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:26:02","slug":"palestine-to-play-home-world-cup-qualifier-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/palestine-to-play-home-world-cup-qualifier-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine to play \u2018home\u2019 World Cup qualifier in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine have been forced to relocate their home World Cup qualifier against Australia <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletter\/football\/football-thumb\/football-thumb.png\" width=\"134\" height=\"134\" layout=\"responsive\"><\/p>\n<h3>Sign up to Miguel Delaney\u2019s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free<\/h3>\n<h3>Sign up to Miguel\u2019s Delaney\u2019s free weekly newsletter <\/h3>\n<h2>Thanks for signing up to the<br \/> Football email<\/h2>\n<p>Football Australia says the Socceroos will play Palestine in a second-round 2026 World Cup qualifier at the neutral venue of Kuwait on 21 November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of current circumstances in the region, the Asian Football Confederation formally requested that this designated home fixture for Palestine be held at a neutral venue,\u201d Football Australia said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Australian football administrators said the match would be played at Jaber Al-Ahmed International Stadium in Kuwait, five days after the Socceroos open the second round of Asian qualifying against Bangladesh in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas militants killed 1,400 people during a 7 October rampage in southern Israel, sparking the ongoing war. Some 240 people Hamas abducted during the attack remain in Gaza, and more than 250,000 Israelis have evacuated homes near the borders of Gaza and Lebanon amid continuous rockets fired into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>A month of relentless bombardment in Gaza has killed more than 10,300 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, according the Health Ministry of the Hamas-run territory. More than 2,300 are believed buried from strikes that reduced entire city blocks to rubble.<\/p>\n<p><em>AP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/palestine-football-world-cup-qualifier-kuwait-b2443640.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine have been forced to relocate their home World Cup qualifier against Australia Sign up to Miguel Delaney\u2019s Reading the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Palestine to play \u2018home\u2019 World Cup qualifier in Kuwait - Sports Love Me<\/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:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/palestine-to-play-home-world-cup-qualifier-in-kuwait\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palestine to play \u2018home\u2019 World Cup qualifier in Kuwait - 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