Despite a complaint from the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) to Fifa to suspend the Israel Football Association (IFA), world soccer's ruling body has decided to start an investigation into the allegations of discrimination. 

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) called for its Israeli counterpart to be suspended and for Israeli teams to be banned from FIFA competitions.

The PFA claims the Israel Football Association (IFA) has broken FIFA discrimination rules. The accusation came seven months into Israel's war with Hamas in the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

FIFA was initially set to hold an extraordinary session of its ruling council before 20th July to review independent legal analysis and decide how to proceed. However, the deadline was pushed back to give the legal experts more time to complete a report.

FIFA Council adopted the recommendations and conclusions reached in the legal analysis at the organization’s headquarters in Zurich on Thursday.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a statement "The FIFA Council has implemented due diligence on this very sensitive matter and, based on a thorough assessment, we have followed the advice of the independent experts. The ongoing violence in the region confirms that, above all consideration we need peace.”