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Ahead of Egypt’s game against Argentina, at the pre-game press conference, a Turkish reporter asked Egypt’s head coach Hossam Hassan about his emotions after the team’s last win against Australia, where the coach waved the Palestinian flag and dedicated the win to the Palestinian people.
He responded: ”First of all, I welcome you and the Turkish people. Everyone has feelings and emotions.
If there is anyone in the world who does not feel for the Palestinian people, then they are not human. It doesn’t matter whether they are Arab, European, or from anywhere else.
Even people in Europe and the United States care deeply about animal rights when animals are mistreated.
So what about human rights, when children and women are subjected to attacks every single day?
We are sitting comfortably in our air-conditioned homes with food and water, while another people are living in the streets with no food, no water, no shelter, and facing destruction.
If we cannot feel for what is happening in Palestine, then we have lost our humanity. It has nothing to do with whether someone is Muslim or Christian, or with their nationality. This is not about religion or citizenship.
To anyone speaking about this issue, I would ask them to imagine living just one day on the streets -with no food, no water, nowhere to keep warm in the cold, and nothing to protect you from the heat in the summer.
It is a disgrace to all of us, and to the entire world, that the Palestinian people are living under such conditions while others live in comfort around them.
I am a human being before I am an Arab or an Egyptian. This has nothing to do with religion or nationality – it is about humanity.
Through football, we are sending a message to the whole world: Please, let the Palestinian people live. Please, let them live.”