Last Updated: October 18, 2023, 02:00 IST
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Dutch ahead Anwar El Ghazi was suspended by Mainz 05 on Tuesday for a social media post in regards to the IsraelHamas conflict that the Bundesliga membership felt was “unacceptable”.
Dutch ahead Anwar El Ghazi was suspended by Mainz 05 on Tuesday for a social media post in regards to the Israel-Hamas conflict that the Bundesliga membership felt was “unacceptable”.
El Ghazi, who joined Mainz in September, has since deleted the post.
Hamas fighters killed 1,300 Israelis on Oct. 7 within the deadliest Palestinian militant assault in Israel’s historical past whereas Israel responded with intensive air strikes which have killed greater than 2,800 Palestinians.
“Mainz 05 respects that there are different perspectives on the complex Middle East conflict that has been going on for decades,” the membership mentioned in an announcement posted on X, previously Twitter.
“However, the club clearly distances itself from the content of the post as it does not reflect the values of our club.”
The membership didn’t present additional particulars about what El Ghazi had written within the deleted post.
Former Aston Villa winger El Ghazi wrote in a separate post on X on Thursday that he had “received some negative messages around my social media posts”.
“I want to make clear that I’m standing for peace above everything,” the 28-yr-outdated mentioned. He additionally known as for “more empathy, deepening our knowledge about the history of this conflict.”
Mainz are seventeenth and second to final within the Bundesliga with two factors after seven matches.
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