Overview

• UEFA displayed a pitch-side banner reading “Stop killing children. Stop killing civilians” before PSG vs Tottenham at the Super Cup in Udine, carried by nine refugee children.
• Two Palestinian refugee children — 12-year-old Tala and 9-year-old Mohamed — joined UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin on the Super Cup podium.
• The UEFA Foundation for Children announced partnerships with Medecins du Monde, Médecins Sans Frontières and Handicap International to provide humanitarian aid to children in Gaza and other conflict zones.
• Rights groups and Israeli sources have criticised the gesture as vague and hypocritical, pointing to inconsistent enforcement of UEFA’s political-message rules.
• The circumstances of former Palestine international Suleiman al-Obeid’s death remain publicly contested after the Palestine Football Association blamed an Israeli attack and the Israeli military reported no incident records.