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Man City Manager Pep Guardiola Slams ‘Silence of Global Leaders’ on Palestine – ‘We Left Gaza Alone, Abandoned’

  • On Friday, Pep Guardiola missed media duties ahead of Manchester City's trip to Tottenham, with the club citing a 'personal reason' for his absence.
  • On Thursday in Barcelona, Pep Guardiola wore a Palestinian scarf and opened his speech in Arabic, saying `Peace be upon you.` at a charity concert supporting Palestine.
  • At the scheduled lunchtime press conference, Manchester City assistant boss Pep Lijnders will take Guardiola's place to preview Sunday's Premier League game against Tottenham.
  • The Spaniard was expected to be back for training on Saturday, with the coaching staff covering media duties and Pep Lijnders taking charge in the short term.
  • Beyond the immediate absence, Pep Guardiola's remarks reaffirmed solidarity with Palestinians and criticised political leaders as 'cowardly authorities', warning silence deepens harm in the Gaza humanitarian crisis.
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The night of this Thursday, January 29, a special day was spent in the historic Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona under the name of Concert-manifest X Palestine. This instance that summoned great figures of international music such as Rosalía, Bad Gyal, Morad, etc. , among them Ana Tijoux, the only Chilean present, who has been a staunch activist for the Palestine cause. On his participation, he pointed out through his IG account: “Considences mark …

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“The bombs want to provoke silences, that we look the other way, that we don’t take a step forward. That’s why we have to get involved, not look the other way and get involved,” said Catalan coach Pep Guardiola at the opening of Act X Palestine, a great solidarity event held on January 29 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona with the aim of making the humanitarian crisis in Palestine visible and raising funds for aid and cultural projects in Gaza an…

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Pep Guardiola was one of the protagonists of the charity concert for Palestine, held at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Manchester City coach, who came on stage wearing a Palestinian handkerchief, opened the event on Thursday, January 29 in Barcelona with a speech in which he made clear his political preferences. “We have left them alone,” Guardiola declared about the situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The intervention of the former f…

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When I see that child, in the last two years, in the images on social media, on television, who asks where his mom is... I always think: what are you thinking? I think those children have abandoned them, alone. I imagine they tell us where you are? Help us. And we haven't done so yet. It's the initial part of the speech that coach Pep Guardiola dedicated to Gaza and Palestinian children during the Act for Palestine event in Barcelona. L'articolo…

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3cat.cat broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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