FIFA President Gianni Infantino shakes hands with Moshe Zuares, president of the 'Israeli' football federation, as Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestine Football Association. leaves the stage during the congress [Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters]
Rights group reveals FIFA deleted settlement broadcasts
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- Rights group accuses FIFA of deleting settlement broadcast evidence
- FIFA+ allegedly streamed matches from Har Homa settlement
- Changes reportedly made amid CAS review of 'Israeli' football cases
- Activists say archived evidence has been preserved
The Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, has been accused of intentionally deleting and modifying official match streaming links to conceal illegal broadcasts produced within an occupied territory, according to an investigation published by the rights organization "Scottish Sport for Palestine."
The group characterized FIFA's rapid digital alterations as a "deliberate erasure of evidence" designed to protect the organization from ongoing legal challenges.
Illegal settlement broadcasts
According to documentation uncovered by the rights group, the official digital streaming platform "FIFA+" intentionally broadcast at least three official football matches live from inside the "Har Homa" settlement.
The settlement is established illegally on occupied East Jerusalem lands.
Activists noted that broadcasting official sporting events from this location constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and directly contradicts FIFA's own governing statutes.
Hiding digital footprints
The report details that following the exposure of the broadcasts, FIFA personnel quickly intervened to redirect the three compromised links away from the official FIFA+ website.
The traffic was routed to an alternative web domain that maintains no public logs, digital archives, or history of the matches.
This digital scrubbing comes at a highly sensitive time for football’s global leadership.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is currently reviewing active lawsuits filed against 'Israeli' settlement clubs, alongside formal legal demands calling for strict international sanctions to be levied against the 'Israeli' Football Association.
Rights group warns of archived copies
In response to the cover-up, Scottish Sport for Palestine issued a sharp warning directly to the international federation, stating that attempts to evade legal accountability would fail.
The organization confirmed that external investigators have successfully preserved and fully certified backup copies of every single minute of the contested broadcasts.
These saved archives will be formally submitted to relevant judicial bodies to hold FIFA legally accountable for what the group described as complicity in violating international frameworks.
