{"id":9035,"date":"2023-11-20T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/20\/ticket-revenues-from-qatar-asian-cup-to-support-palestinians\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:51:11","slug":"ticket-revenues-from-qatar-asian-cup-to-support-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/20\/ticket-revenues-from-qatar-asian-cup-to-support-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket revenues from Qatar Asian Cup to support Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ticket revenues for the Asian Cup 2023 in Qatar are to be donated to support Palestinian relief efforts, the football tournament\u2019s local organising committee announced on Monday, as Israel\u2019s bombardment of Gaza continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided to donate ticketing revenue generated from the Asian Cup in Qatar to much needed relief efforts in Palestine,\u201d the committee\u2019s chairman said without giving details on what proportion of sales would be given in aid.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will be certain that this corporate social responsibility initiative will benefit those most affected, and that football fulfils its role as a support mechanism for people during the most difficult of times,\u201d Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani added.<\/p>\n

Israel launched its assault on Gaza in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas on October 7 in which 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 240 taken as hostages, according to Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n

Since then, Gaza\u2019s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 13,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory with increasing alarm over its dire humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n

Qatar will host the Asian Cup beginning in January and, like other Gulf nations, has donated aid and medical supplies to Gaza via Egypt.<\/p>\n

A wide range of local and international businesses and organisations based in the gas-rich Gulf state have also launched their own campaigns to raise funds for the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n

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