{"id":295990,"date":"2023-10-12T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=295990"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:25:16","slug":"amir-khan-pledges-his-support-to-palestine-amid-war-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/boxing\/amir-khan-pledges-his-support-to-palestine-amid-war-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan pledges his support to Palestine amid war with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;Palestinian lives matter&#8217;: Amir Khan pledges his support to the people of Palestine amid their ongoing war with Israel&#8230; with the former boxing star claiming &#8216;people are scared to show their support&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The former boxing star has spoken out on the conflict, joining other sport stars\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Israel-Palestine: To get the latest updates\u00a0click here for MailOnline&#8217;s live blog\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former boxer Amir Khan has claimed people are &#8216;scared&#8217; to come out in support of Palestine amid an ongoing war with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Khan took to social media platform X to say, in a lengthy post, that &#8216;Palestinian lives matter&#8217; and that he has &#8216;never been scared to speak&#8217; his mind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My entire career, my aim was to become a world champion and use my fame and influence to make a positive change in the world,&#8217; his post began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve never been scared to speak my mind and stand up for the down trodden. Recently when Ukraine was attacked by Russia, I personally flew to Poland to support the Ukrainian refugees who had been displaced by the effects of war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So many people spoke up about these atrocities but as the world watches what is unfolding in Palestine, I see so many of my peers, friends and colleagues who are remaining silent. Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/69454741-12623925-Khan_received_a_two_year_ban_from_UKAD_but_was_the_offence_was_n-a-30_1697122286316.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Amir Khan has become the latest sportsperson to comment on the Israel-Palestine conflict<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76478941-12623925-image-a-29_1697122281881.jpg\" height=\"858\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), Khan spoke his mind while over in the UAE<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s become apparent that people are scared to show their support for Palestine and what&#8217;s worse is that it&#8217;s my own people who are talking down to me for supporting the innocent lives being lost.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Palestinian lives matter.\u00a0The world will remember who spoke up and who didn&#8217;t. And God will remember who stayed silent while innocent Muslims blood was spilled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If any one kills a person &#8211; it would be as if he killed the whole of humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole of humanity.&#8217; *Quran 5:32*&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khan is ther latest prominent sports star to\u00a0<span>have shown support for Palestinians in the wake of the roiling conflict in the region following <\/span>the attacks by terror group Hamas in Israel on Saturday<span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hamas\u00a0terrorists\u00a0launched rocket strikes on Israel and invaded parts of the country on Saturday, killing civilians and kidnapping others with swift retaliation later following.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s army has hammered Hamas with thousands of strikes ahead of what is widely expected to be a ground invasion of the crowded territory, after Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and took about 150 hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Israel, the death toll from Saturday&#8217;s assault rose to 1,200 &#8211; making it the deadliest attack in the country&#8217;s 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76473839-12623925-Palestinians_evacuate_wounded_after_an_Israeli_airstrike_in_Rafa-a-31_1697122297102.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Palestinians evacuate wounded after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76471047-12623925-Smoke_plumes_billow_during_Israeli_air_strikes_in_Gaza_City_on_O-a-32_1697122303091.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76474199-12623925-image-a-33_1697122307758.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday\u00a0England cricket vice-captain Moeen Ali posted and then deleted a picture including a Palestine\u00a0flag in an apparent show of support for the territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His initial post on social media site Instagram featured a quote from activist Malcolm X accompanied by his image on a mural, which also featured the Palestinian flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The quote read: &#8216;If you&#8217;re not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original post was subsequently deleted, and replaced by the quote itself, typed against a black background with a black and white photo of the American Muslim minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sharing of both posts &#8211; and deleting of the first &#8211; comes hours after Ali shared that he had once avoided growing a beard\u00a0over fears of being labelled an &#8216;extremist&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Few sportspeople have made statements either in support of Israel or Palestine, but Arsenal&#8217;s Mohamed Elneny changed his X (formerly Twitter) picture to that of a Palestinian flag in recent days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76467721-12623925-Moeen_Ali_shared_and_later_deleted_a_photo_including_a_Palestini-a-46_1697122694081.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Moeen Ali shared and later deleted a photo including a Palestinian flag as he seemed to show support for the territory<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76468469-12623925-image-a-47_1697122697776.jpg\" height=\"748\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76468515-12623925-Ali_first_shared_the_quote_as_part_of_an_image_of_a_mural_then_w-a-48_1697122701196.jpg\" height=\"385\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ali first shared the quote as part of an image of a mural, then with a photograph of Malcolm X<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12623925\/Palestinian-lives-matter-Amir-Khan-pledges-support-people-Palestine-amid-ongoing-war-Israel-former-boxing-star-claiming-people-scared-support.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Palestinian lives matter&#8217;: Amir Khan pledges his support to the people of Palestine amid their ongoing war with Israel&#8230; 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