Israeli Nations League football fans call for end to war

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Israeli football fans attended a UEFA Nations League football match in Budapest on Monday eager to watch the male national team play Italy — while also calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war.

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00:00Israeli sports fans braved the rain to watch a Nations League football match between Israel

00:08and Italy in Budapest on Monday. While many attendees spoke with excitement about the

00:15game, others called for an end to the brutal Israel-Hamas war.

00:20We want peace. We are the Jewish, we don't like war, fight and shoot. We want to live in our country together.

00:36I know one of the players of the national team and his friend died in the war. So it's

00:45effects on everyone because Israel is a small country and we are all together and we all

00:49suffer together. But we hope that we'll have something to like, to joy or like things to

00:57be happy about. So this is the soccer, this is football.

01:01This match we must, must watch. El El Israel. Okay?

01:06The son of my sister, in the 7th of October, he's supposed to be in Gaza, in the same place

01:15that the terrorists came and killed all the soldiers in the base. And he replaced two

01:22days before the war, he replaced with his friend the days because it was a holiday.

01:28So a lot of his friends died, killed in this base, in the army.

01:37Some European cities, like Brussels, have refused to host Nations League matches with

01:42Israel due to security concerns. Israel's male and female national football teams have

01:47played in Hungary since the October 7th attack.

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