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More than 1,000 homes inPlymouthhave been evacuated after anunexploded Second World War bomb was discovered at a building site.

Officials have confirmed the device, identified as a 250kg German SC250, will be detonated in situ.

The discovery in Flamborough Road, Southway, led to a 400-metre cordon, with military experts concluding the device cannot be safely moved.

“Royal Navy and Army unexploded ordnance specialists have now completed a rigorous and detailed assessment of the device,” a council spokesman said.

“They have advised that it is not possible to safely remove it.

“The only safe option is to make the device safe in situ, which will involve a controlled detonation.

“This is planned to take place on Friday, once all safety measures are fully in place.”

The council said specialists were building a “sand mitigation structure” to reduce the impact of the blast.

“You will not be able to see the detonation and people are asked to stay well away from the area,” the spokesman said.

“A no-fly zone is also in place – drones are not permitted.”

The 400-metre cordon remains in place and residents will not be able to return home until the device has been made safe.

Southway Youth and Community Centre has been opened for use by evacuated residents.

Since it opened more than 50 residents have been helped and 25 households placed in temporary accommodation.

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Oakwood Primary School, Little Acorns Pre-School and Beechwood Primary School will remain closed on Friday.

Colonel Nick Handy, from 8 Engineer Brigade, said the condition of the fuses in thebombmade it impossible to move it safely.

“Unfortunately we cannot get a definitive X-ray of the second fuse and therefore it is not safe to move that item,” Col Handy said.

“We are going to blow it in situ.

“When I say blow it in situ, we are going to try our hardest to deflagrate that item and burn it inside of a structure which will limit the damage to the local surroundings.

“I am pretty confident that the mitigation that we put up will limit most of the damage, but we will look to do that at some point on Friday.”

Col Handy said the device contained 130kg of explosives “that is 80 years old and it’s dangerous”.

“When that thing goes bang for want of a better expression, there will be damage,” he said.

“We will limit that as much as possible to ensure that nobody suffers.

“The mitigation that we put in place should affect only small amounts of damage on the outer extremities of the area.”

There were more than 50 Luftwaffe air raids on Plymouth between 1941 and 1944, killing 1,174 civilians in the city.

The first bombs fell on the city on July 6 1940, with the heaviest period of bombing occurring in March and April 1941.

Two years ago a 500kg German Second World War bomb was found in a garden in the Keyham area of Plymouth.

It forced theevacuationof thousands of people and was detonated at se

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The president of the Palestinian football federation Jibril Rajoub refused ​to stand alongside Israel FA Vice-President Basim Sheikh Suliman in a heated moment at theFifaCongress on Thursday.

Both men were called to the stand by Fifa PresidentGianni Infantino, but Rajoub declined to be brought closer to Arab-Israeli Suliman.

Infantino put ⁠his hand on Rajoub's arm and invited him with a gesture to come closer to Suliman, but in vain.

Asked what Rajoub said when he refused, Palestinian FA Vice-President Susan Shalabi, who was in the room, toldReuters: “I cannot shake the hand of someone the Israelis have brought to whitewash their fascism and ⁠genocide. We are suffering.”

Israel has denied committing genocide ​in ⁠Gaza.

Infantino then took the stand and said: “We will work together, President Rajoub, Vice-President Suliman. Let's work together to give hope to the children. These are complex ⁠matters.”

Speaking toReutersafter the Congress ended, Shalabi said Infantino's attempt to have Suliman and ​Rajoub ⁠shake hands showed little consideration for ‌the Palestinian FA chief's speech, in which he made yet another plea for Israeli clubs not to base teams in theWest Banksettlements.

She said: “To be put in a position where to ‌have a handshake after everything that was said, this ‌negates the whole purpose of the speech that the general (Rajoub) was giving.

“He spent like 15 minutes trying to explain to everyone how the rules matter, how this could easily become a precedent where the rights of ⁠member associations are violated with impudence, and then we'll just wrap this under the carpet. It was absurd.”

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Rajoub said: "From my side, I still respect and follow the legal procedure but I think it’s time to understand that Israel should be sanctioned. The double standard policy should stop.

"I refused to shake hands. Sport is sport… for me that should be respected, but if the other ⁠side is representing a criminal like Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) and speaking on behalf of Bibi as if Bibi is Mother Teresa, how can I shake hands or have a photo with such a man?

"I think Gianni has the right to try to bridge gaps and bring people together but I think maybe he does not understand or does not know the deep suffering of the Palestinian people."

Last week, the PFA appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against Fifa's decision not to sanction Israel over clubs based in West Bank settlements.

The PFA has long argued that clubs based in settlements in the West Bank – territory Palestinians seek as part of a future state – should not compete in leagues run by the Israel Football Association.

Fifa said last ‌month it would take no action against the IFA or Israeli clubs, citing ​the unresolved legal status of the West Bank under public international law.

As ‌they were leaving the Vancouver Convention Centre, ⁠Rajoub and Shalabi were targeted by protesters who were demanding that FIFA should ban ⁠Iran from the World Cup on the grounds that the team, they say, represent the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“Does ‌that convince you that you ​have to support IRGC... because you're having a ‌problem with Israel,” one protester asked Rajoub.

“We're ​not supporting anyone, we just want the support of the international community,” Rajoub said.