THE Palestine Football Association (PFA) has called for a Fifa sanction and to exclude the Israel Football Association (IFA) from Fifa on the grounds of human rights and humanitarian law violations committed in the Gaza Strip, it was revealed today.

The submission to the international football governing body concerns a number of violations of both international law and Fifa regulations.

It called on Fifa to push the IFA to address discrimination and racism within its league and to address IFA violations of the Fifa statutes in its continued inclusion of football teams located on the territory of another association (Palestine) in its national league.