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12 October, 2023
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A period of silence will be held before England's game with Australia for "the innocent victims of the devastating events in Israel and Palestine".


The Football Association also said players would wear black armbands for the match at Wembley on Friday.

More than 1,200 people have been killed after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a series of attacks on Israel.

Israel then launched air strikes on Gaza and stopped food, water, fuel and medicine going into the territory. More than 1,300 people have been killed in Gaza since the retaliatory strikes, with 338,000 displaced.

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