MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United defender Harry Maguire will miss the rest of the Premier League season after suffering a muscle injury, the club said Sunday.
United said Maguire would need three weeks to recover but did not offer further details on the injury, which occurred in training.
It means he faces a race to be fit in time for the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 25, but should be available for England for the European Championship, which starts June 14.
Maguire's injury is the latest setback for United manager Erik ten Hag, who has had to contend with the absences of a host of key players this season, including Luke Shaw, Lisandro Martinez, Raphael Varane, Casemiro and Mason Mount.
United has four more league games before the Cup final at Wembley. United plays Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Monday.
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Manchester United's Harry Maguire, centre, celebrates with his teammates after scoring his side's opening goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Sheffield at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of protesters rallying within sight of the Capitol chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and voiced criticism of the Israeli and American governments as they marked a painful present — the war in Gaza — and past — the exodus of some 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from what is now Israel when the state was created in 1948.
About 400 demonstrators braved steady rains to rally on the National Mall on the 76th anniversary of what is called the Nakba, the Arabic word for catastrophe. In January, thousands of pro-Palestinian activists had gathered in the nation's capital in one of the larger protests in recent memory.
There were calls in support of Palestinian rights and an immediate end to Israeli military operations in Gaza. “No peace on stolen land” and “End the killings, stop the crime/Israel out of Palestine,” echoed through the crowd.
Protesters also focused their anger on President Joe Biden, whom they accuse of feigning concern over the death toll in Gaza.
“Biden Biden, you will see/genocide’s your legacy,” they said. The Democratic president was in Atlanta on Saturday.
Reem Lababdi, a George Washington University sophomore who said she was pepper-sprayed by police last week when they broke up an on-campus protest encampment, acknowledged that the rain seemed to hold down the numbers.
"I’m proud of every single person who turned out in this weather to speak their minds and send their message,” she said.
This year’s commemoration was fueled by anger over the ongoing siege of Gaza. The latest Israel-Hamas war began when Hamas and other militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking an additional 250 hostage. Palestinian militants still hold about 100 captives, and Israel’s military has killed more than 35,000 people in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
There is widespread anger, too, over the violent crackdown on multiple pro-Palestinian protest camps at universities across the country. In recent weeks, long-term encampments have been broken up by police at more than 60 schools.
In addition to pressing Israel and the Biden administration for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza, activists have long pushed for the right of return for Palestinian refugees — an Israeli red line in decades of start-and-stop negotiations.
After the Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel's establishment, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within Israel's borders. Instead, they became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million, with most living in slum-like urban refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In Gaza, the refugees and their descendants make up around three-quarters of the population.
Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
A young man wearing a keffiyeh and a Jewish star necklace, left, holds a banner next to a 7-year-old from Springfield, Va., wearing a traditional outfit on the shoulders of her grandfather, who is Palestinian, during a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A young man wearing a keffiyeh and a Jewish star necklace, left, holds a banner next to a 7-year-old from Springfield, Va., wearing a traditional outfit while on the shoulders of her grandfather, who is Palestinian, during a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A 7-year-old from Springfield, Va., wearing a traditional outfit while being held by her grandfather, who is Palestinian, raises her fist during a chant at a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A man wearing a keffiyeh looks at the U.S. Capitol during a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Cody Wolfe, center, of Elizabethtown, Penn., holds his two-year old son on his back wearing a keffiyeh, as he and his children attend a pro-Palestinian rally, Saturday, May 18, 2024, on the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington. "For our family it's the least we can do," says Wolfe, who said he is not of Palestinian descent but has been attending protests, "to show our solidarity. We want the babies to stop dying." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
