Overview
- Unai Elgezabal, Gorka Guruzeta and Yuri Berchiche scored for the Basque side in the friendly at San Mamés.
- Organizers said roughly 50,000 people held tickets as fans displayed Palestinian and Basque flags and staged marches in the city.
- Palestinian coach Abu Jazar urged international pressure to, in his words, stop the genocide, reflecting the match’s explicitly political tone.
- Palestinian football officials said 289 sports sites in Gaza were destroyed and about 1,100 athletes and sports staff were killed, figures they attributed to Israeli military actions.
- The largely diaspora-based Palestinian selection, ranked 98th by FIFA, is scheduled to play Catalonia’s regional team in Barcelona on Tuesday.