In a broadly shared Twitter submit, Liverpool and Egypt star Mo Salah urged world leaders, particularly British Minister Boris Johnson, “to do everything in their power to make sure the violence and killing of innocent people stops immediately.”
But the submit generated as a lot remark for what it did not say, as for what it did.
“Mo Salah, say it with me, Pal-es-tine,” tweeted regulation professor Khaled Beydoun of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville School of Law in reply to Salah.
In an earlier tweet, Salah posted a photograph of himself standing in entrance of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
Dozens of individuals, together with ladies and kids, have been killed and lots of extra injured in Israeli bombing raids throughout Gaza this week, in response to Palestinian well being officers. While militants in Gaza have fired greater than 1,000 rockets into Israel in latest days, killing a minimum of 5 Israeli residents and injuring 200 extra, the Israeli army mentioned.
Salah is not the one high-profile Premier League footballer tweeting in regards to the escalating violence between Palestinians and Israel, notably Manchester City stars Benjamin Mendy and Riyad Mahrez have each tweeted to indicate their solidarity with the Palestinians.
Inter Milan star Achraf Hakimi and Porto’s Moussa Marega additionally tweeted their help of Palestinians.
Last weekend, gamers of Chilean first division membership Palestino — based in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants — wore the keffiyeh, a chequered black and white conventional Arab scarf, earlier than their match in opposition to Colo-Colo to indicate their help for Palestinians.
On Wednesday, British PM Johnson tweeted: “I am urging Israel and the Palestinians to step back from the brink and for both sides to show restraint. The UK is deeply concerned by the growing violence and civilian casualties and we want to see an urgent de-escalation of tensions.”
