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Soccer-Israel briefly detains travelling Palestine player

Yahoo! Sports | May 22, 2015

Related Topics: Israel, Palestinian National Authority, West Bank, FIFA, Hamas

By Ali Sawafta

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RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 22 (Reuters) - The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has complained to world soccer governing body FIFA that Israeli authorities held up a national team player as the squad travelled from the West Bank to Tunisia on Thursday.

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