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Benzema voices support for Gaza

Published: 16 Oct 2023 - 09:30 am | Last Updated: 16 Oct 2023 - 09:33 am
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Doha, Qatar: Veteran French player Karim Benzema who joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad recently has shown his support for Palestinians in Gaza. 

In a social media post that is going viral by the minute, the football icon wrote in French that roughly translates to, "All our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza who are once again victims of these unjust bombings which spare no women or children."

The text post published at 6:55pm on October 15 has already garnered 33.9m views as of writing this article today. It has received 148.8k reposts, 425.2k likes and 49.5k comments.