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Send a letter to the Amputee Football Association Scotland to ask them to disinvite Israel from the Amputee Football International Tournament - Please be courteous

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I greatly admire your work in general but I support the protest against the Amputee Football Association Scotland (AFAS) hosting Israel, in the forthcoming Amputee Football International Tournament involving Belgium, Ireland, Israel and Scotland.
By playing Israel, AFAS are helping to normalise a regime that used snipers to deliberately shatter the limbs of many thousands of Palestinian demonstrators, often leading directly to amputations.
In the 16 months until July 2019, Israeli snipers killed over one hundred and deliberately maimed more than 7,500 Palestinians demonstrating for their rights along the border fence separating Gaza from Israel - 87% of those bullets shattered a limb and 148 directly resulted in amputations.
Despite your general work in support of amputees, you will be helping to cover up what Amnesty International has recognised to be Israel’s brutal regime that deliberately maimed and crippled thousands.
Some snipers boasted of their actions in Israeli media.
"You have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven-eight knees in one day. Within a few hours, I almost broke his record.". Another said, “On that day, our pair had the largest number of hits, 42 in all.”
It is an outrage that a Scottish body has invited Israel to this 4-team tournament - rewarding a country to the fore in deliberately creating Palestinian amputees. Disinvite them.