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Messi and Suarez urged not to ‘cash in’ on Israeli apartheid
Palestinians call on the football stars to cancel their international friendly in Tel Aviv
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Omar Badawi, 22, during his funeral at the al-Arroub refugee camp in the West Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. Badawi was shot in the chest during the confrontation with Israeli forces

PALESTINIANS and human rights activists have urged two of football’s biggest stars, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, not to cash in on the “greatest moral issue of our time” by playing a friendly match in Israel. 

The Argentina and Uruguay national football teams have confirmed that they will play a friendly match in Israel on November 18. 

The classic South American rivalry, known as the Silver River Classic (Clasico del Rio de la Plata), has pitted the two teams against each other for over 100 years and, with close to 200 matches to date, is the most played international derby in the sport. 

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