Controversy and denunciation in the digital space.. An Israeli stadium with Emirati funding in a village that witnessed a massacre against the Palestinians

The interactive bulletin - your publication (7/26/2022) monitored the story revealed by the Hebrew website Ynet, which said that an agreement was made between an Emirati government company and the Israeli Minister of Regional Cooperation, Issawi Freij, to establish a new football stadium in the city of Kafr Qassem, which witnessed an Israeli massacre. As a result, 51 Palestinians were killed in 1956.

According to the website, the UAE will fully finance the construction of the 8,000-seat "Khalifa" stadium, and its implementation is expected to start in the next few months.

The Israeli minister obtained the green light to build the stadium from Emirati officials, which led to the preparation of implementation plans.

This announcement coincides with a deal that the Israeli minister is trying to conclude between an Emirati businessman close to the Emirati government, and the Israeli Hapoel Club to buy it in full.

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With the spread of the news on the communication platforms in the Arab world, tweeters expressed their condemnation of this step through multiple hashtags, including: "Emirates" and "Kafr Qassem", through which activists accused the Abu Dhabi government of helping the Israeli occupation obliterate its crimes by building the stadium on the ground. Palestinian.

On the other hand, others saw this step as an expansion of the trade partnership between the two countries.

Muhammad Al-Santawi accused the UAE of contributing to the obliteration of the crimes of the occupation, and said, "obliterating the crimes so that they are not mentioned again."

While Moataz Al-Osaili expressed his astonishment at what he called the heinous act, he wrote, "How can an Arab Muslim country like the Emirates do such a heinous act?"

Ghaith Sharmiti called on the UAE government to watch a movie about the massacre, and he tweeted, "We advise the brothers in the UAE to watch the film Kafr Qassem, directed by Burhan Alawia, in the hope that they review their concept of tolerance."

On the other hand, the tweeter Shahd believes that the Emirati move contributes to peace and tolerance, and she said, "The UAE is the hand of goodness, tolerance and peace, and is working hard to strengthen bilateral relations with all countries and with Israel in order to strengthen the peace treaty."

As for the singer, Maha, she considered the Emirates’ initiative to finance the stadium as a matter of her own, so she wrote, “The Emirates is free, prints, builds, buys. What is your income (your relationship) in it? The money is their money, they do what seems to them.”