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Morocco World
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Morocco World
Al-Hilal Withdraws From the Saudi Super Cup
Al Hilal are considering pulling out of the 2025 Saudi Super Cup, which will take place in Hong Kong, citing technical and physical reasons, following their participation in the Club World Cup. According to Al-Hilal's officials, the players are still exhausted after participating in the Club World Cup, and need some time to recover before starting another season. The Saudi Football Association is not objecting, as Al-Hilal is the only team that barely had any rest. According to local media, the club could face penalties under tournament regulations, including a fine of up to SAR 500,000 and a potential ban from the next edition. The Federation is still reviewing potential implications. Sports critic Mohammed Al-Sheikh: 'The team is suffering from continuous fatigue after a long and arduous season, both at the club level and with the national teams, while no other Saudi club has faced the same physical pressure.' Al-Hilal have submitted an official apology for not playing their scheduled match against Al-Qadisiyah. Al-Shekh commented that the apology was not arbitrary but came after a thorough analysis of the technical and administrative circumstances, considering that the decision could ultimately benefit the team in the long term. The Saudi Super Cup is set to take place in Hong Kong on August 19, with Al-Nassr facing Al-Ittihad. Al-Hilal were due to play Al-Qadisiyah the following day. The Riyadh-based club is the title holder of the last Saudi Super Cup, with Brazilian forward Malcom scoring twice in a 4-1 victory over Al Ittihad in Abu Dhabi. With Al-Hilal out of the Super Cup, Al-Ahli is considered the frontrunners to replace them, according to Al-Riyadiyah newspaper. The final line-up of participating clubs is yet to be confirmed. Tags: Al HilalRoshn Saudi Leagueyassine bounou
Arab News
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Gaza rescuers say 42 killed in Israeli strikes
GAZA CITY: Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people Friday in the Palestinian territory, devastated by war and under a total Israeli aid blockade for two months. Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18 after the collapse of a ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting. Nine people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, civil defense official Mohammed Al-Mughayyir told AFP. AFP footage in the aftermath of a strike on Bureij camp showed Palestinians searching for casualties in the rubble of a flattened building. 'They gave us no warning, no phone call — we woke up at midnight to smoke, rubble, stones, and shrapnel raining down on us,' said Mohammed Al-Sheikh, standing among collapsed concrete slabs. 'We pulled out martyrs — bodies and limbs from under the rubble.' Another six people were killed in a strike targeting the Al-Masri family home in the northern city of Beit Lahia, civil defense official Mughayyir added. In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen claimed the lives of six more, the civil defense agency reported. Across the Gaza Strip, at least 21 other deaths were reported in similar attacks, the agency said. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed its campaign in Gaza, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,418. The war erupted after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still being held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. The Israeli government says its renewed campaign aims to force Hamas to free the remaining captives, although critics charge it puts them in mortal danger. Israel halted aid deliveries to Gaza on March 2, days before the collapse of the ceasefire which had come into effect on January 19. The United Nations has repeatedly warned of the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe on the ground, with famine again looming. On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said the humanitarian response in Gaza was on the 'verge of total collapse.' 'This situation must not — and cannot — be allowed to escalate further,' its deputy director of operations, Pascal Hundt, said in a statement.
