It means that hopes that for the first time all 57 members of the ISSF would take part in the Solidarity Games have been dashed.
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered on prizes for athletes and their coaches for the highest places in the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games.
The Islamic Solidarity Games will be held in Baku from 12 to 22 May.
Ahmad al-Ali, a spokesman for the Palestinian Olympic Committee, told Anadolu Agency that Israel had barred 25 Palestinian athletes from the blockaded Gaza Strip - out of 105 on the Palestinian national team - from attending the event.
The Iranian delegation will partake in 16 types of sports in the competition.
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The second edition was scheduled to be held in Iran's capital Tehran in 2009, but it was cancelled following a dispute between the host country and Arab nations.
The games include athletics and para athletic events, rhythmic gymnastics, table tennis, wrestling, basketball, handball, taekwondo, wushu, boxing, judo and blind judo, tennis, diving, karate, volleyball, football, shooting, water polo, artistic gymnastics, swimming and weightlifting, according to the official website of Baku 2017.
It will mark the start of the fourth edition of the Islamic Solidarity Games, which were first held in Saudi Arabian city Mecca in 2005.
The third Games took place in Indonesia in September 2013.
"Azerbaijan is working very hard to preserve Islam's religious and cultural values, while promoting multi-culturalism".
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