Israel FA claim Celtic fine from UEFA is THEIR doing as they make loaded point over Green Brigade's Palestine support

Shino Zoertz has boldly insisted Celtic landed their latest UEFA fine due to the fact THEY complained about them.

The Israel FA's chairman's claims come after the Premiership champions landed their latest fine from Europe's top brass. They have been hit with a fine of £15,200 this season after their fans waved Palestinian flags during their Champions League match against Atletico Madrid in October.

UEFA have reaffirmed their stance that flags and banners they deem to hold a "provocative messages of an offensive nature" will be hit with consequences. And Israel's footballing body claim they complained about the banners directly with UEFA. Zoertz said: "The chairman of the Palestinian FA, Jibril Rajoub, made a comment in October justifying the massacre. I believe his words were sickening, but I only see the point of complaining if he would be sanctioned and I thought he might not be. He would have come out stronger because of that, so we chose not to do anything.

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"But we did file a complaint against Celtic and it was actually accepted and the club were punished. However, the statements of both FIFA and UEFA have been disappointing overall.

"Let's remember in our last home game, we stood for the victims of an earthquake in Morocco and the flood in Libya. But there was nothing about our losses.

"Having said, at least they ignored the calls to suspend Israel as in the case of Russia. We must not forget that either."