The world governing body of football (FIFA) has caused a storm of controversy after it demanded an explanation from the Israeli ambassador to Switzerland for an Israeli artillery strike on a football stadium in Gaza.
Jerome Champagne, the delegate to FIFA's special affairs president, last week wrote to Aviv Shiron at the Israeli embassy asking about the firing at the stadium on 30 March, even though the organisation says it does not get involved in politics.
The Israeli strike came in retaliation for continuing Palestinian kassam rocket attacks from Gaza, which ironically included one rocket which hit a football pitch in a kibbutz close to Ashkelon the day before.
No one was injured in the Israeli strike as the Israeli army said they had been careful to make sure the stadium was unpopulated, whereas one person was injured in the kassam attack.
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