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VIDEO SHOWS: PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTING IN UDINE AHEAD OF ITALY-ISRAEL WORLD CUP QUALIFIER / COMMENTS BY DEMONSTRATORS ON MATCH, CEASEFIRE IN GAZA SHOTLIST ONLY, COMPLETE SCRIPT TO FOLLOW SHOWS: UDINE, ITALY (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING IN CITY CENTRE ON DAY OF ITALY-ISRAEL WORLD CUP QUALIFIER 2. BANNER READING (Italian) “You don't play with genocide” 3. DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING IN CITY CENTRE 4. BANNER READING (Italian) “Full stadium, empty conscience” 5. DEMOSTRATORS CHANTING (English) “Free Gaza” 6. DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING, UNFOLDING LARGE PALESTINIAN FLAG 7. DEMOSTRATORS WAVING LARGE PALESTINIAN FLAG 8. DEMOSTRATORS CHANTING (Italian) “We are all Palestinian” 9. GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING, HOLDING BANNER READING (Italian) "No one will be free until Palestine is free and recognised" 10. DEMONSTRATOR CHANTING, HOLDING RED CARD 11. DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING BANNER READING (English) "Show Israel the red card" 12. GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS DRUMMING 13. DEMONSTRATOR CLAPPING HANDS 14. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR FROM TRIESTE, GLORIA CASAGRANDE, SAYING: "I think two years of war and extermination speak for themselves. Fortunately, people are taking action because, until some time ago, all we did was click on a few opinion polls. Fortunately, we are now taking action at all levels, and I hope we continue to do so, (also) now that we have signed a peace agreement – or a fake peace agreement, I don't think they will fool us so easily on these issues anymore." 15. BANNER READING (English) "Show Israel the red card. Socrates against genocide" 16. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR FROM UDINE, VALENTINA BIANCHI, SAYING: "There has been a ceasefire, but not peace. As I wrote on the sign, there can be no peace without justice. So we need to recognise the state of Palestine as a first step, or rather as the very first step, open the border crossings and let the aid through, and then everything else will follow." 17. MANNEQUIN REPRESENTING JUSTICE 18. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR, STEFANO (NO SURNAME GIVEN), SAYING: "It's the least we can do to be here. We can't live our daily lives without… at least a minimum to make these people understand." 19. DEMONSTRATOR HOLDING RED BANNER READING (English) "Show Israel the red card" 20. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR FROM SAN VITO AL TAGLIAMENTO, ANTONIO DI BISCEGLIE, SAYING: "Just as Russia was removed when it (the invasion of Ukraine) happened, the same should have been done by international sporting bodies for Israel. This has not been done, but all the more we condemn the fact that Israel continues to be allowed to compete as if nothing had happened."  21. DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING BANNER READING (English) "Show Israel the red card"

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VIDEO SHOWS: FILE OF TWO-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST, ARTEM DOLGOPYAT, ARRIVING IN ISRAEL AFTER WINNING GOLD AT THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS; SOUNDBITES FROM ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY SARIT SHENAR. SHOWS: BEN GURION AIRPORT, ISRAEL (FILE – AUGUST 3, 2021) (Reuters – Access all) 1. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI GYMNAST ARTEM DOLGOPYAT, WHO WON THE MEN'S INDIVIDUAL FLOOR EXERCISE AT THE TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES, RETURNING TO HERO'S WELCOME AT BEN GURION AIRPORT. UNKNOWN LOCATION, SWITZERLAND (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (Reuters – Access all) 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY, SARIT SHENAR, SAYING: "We were really shocked. We were not ready for that kind of sanction. Our athletes have been training for the World Championship for a while. This is the major competition of the year. And we were ready to compete and not to deal with politics. We were ready to deal with gymnastics, and we were really shocked. Very big disappointment." 3. WHITE FLASH 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY, SARIT SHENAR, SAYING: "We've communicated with them several times and tried to keep them motivated and focused in the competition. It was definitely one of my hardest moments, speaking to them earlier, a few hours ago, having to tell them that they're not going to go. It was devastating." 5. WHITE FLASH 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY, SARIT SHENAR, SAYING: "This team is composed of six gymnasts. Artem [Dolgopyat] is very experienced, you know, a top athlete, but you know, we also have like a gymnast that for her was the first world championship. There were a lot of emotions and tears and the guys also, you know, for them, some of them, it can be the last championship. They're really heartbreaking. They're shocked." 7. WHITE FLASH 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY, SARIT SHENAR, SAYING: "In my eyes, it's not even about gymnastics. This is sport. If you want to have a fair sport, everybody should compete. There shouldn't be any discrimination against anybody for any reason. And I'm sure actually the competition, the people that are going to go and compete this next weekend, they're not going to be happy. Well, maybe some of them are happier because they have greater chances. But I think that everybody that's honest and that wants to have to win the medal is— you want to win the medals against the strongest competitors. It's not fair to win without a competition." 9. WHITE FLASH 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI GYMNASTICS FEDERATION GENERAL SECRETARY, SARIT SHENAR, SAYING: "For this world championship, this is the end of the road. So we cannot, no matter what will happen for the gymnast, we cannot fix their hearts. They're going to be, they're hurt anyway. But of course, for the future, for future Israeli sports, for future world sports, I want to see a very strong decision that leaves no room for such decisions from any kind to any country, to any international federation. Our biggest fear is that it starts now and who knows what's next. So I really, really hope that the CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport] will give a very strong decision that will intimidate anybody that has such crazy ideas to discriminate against any athlete from any country for any reason. and not to do so. This is not part of the Olympic Charter, and this is not part of the sports that we like to watch. We want to see fair play, we want to see tough competitions, and we want everything to be decided in the field of play and not in court or in governments or in political authorities." INTERNET (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (Internet – Access all) 11. INSTAGRAM POST FROM ARTEM DOLGOPYAT STORY: The Israel Gymnastics Federation (IGF) has called on global sporting authorities to intervene, to ensure sport remains fair and free from discrimination.  The plea came after six Israeli gymnasts were denied visas to Indonesia, costing them a spot in this month's World Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Jakarta. The Southeast Asian nation said on Friday (October, 10) it had denied visas to Israeli gymnasts amid an outcry over Israel's military offensive in Gaza. The decision prompted the IGF to submit an urgent appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), seeking an injunction to allow Israeli athletes, including Olympic gold medallist Artem Dolgopyat, to participate in the competition. Today (October, 14), Cas rejected their request. Indonesia, which has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel, cited objections from groups such as a council of Islamic clerics and the local government in the capital Jakarta, where the championship will be held from October 19, for its decision to bar the athletes. The two-year-old war has drawn strong criticism in Indonesia. (Productions: Lucy Thomson)

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