Saeed Hassanain, who served as the announcer for soccer club Bnei Sakhnin's home games, was fired from his position due to his comments in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, where he said that "the IDF is an occupying army, Israel is the enemy." Hassanain also claimed that Omer Shem Tov "appreciates his captors and kisses them willingly."

