The organizers of the Eurovision Musical Competition will not meet online in November to vote on Israel’s participation, following “developments” in the Middle East, the European Union of Broadcasting said today in a clear report on the ceasefire.

Austria had asked countries not to boycott the next year’s competition, which is expected to take place in Vienna due to Israel’s participation and concerns about the two -year conflict in Gaza.

Eurovision, which underlines its political neutrality, has been a field of controversy this year in relation to war and various countries had pledged to withdraw from the event if Israel participated.

Austria’s state television network, ORF, which will host the 2026 competition, told Reuters that it welcomes the EBU decision.

Today, Hamas released the last Israeli hostages from Gaza and Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, under the ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the two -year war.

“The Council has agreed to integrate the issue on the agenda of the scheduled winter General Assembly, which will take place in December,” instead of an emergency meeting, which was to take place online in November, he said in an EBU statement.

In addition, it is noted that after the “recent developments in the Middle East”, the Executive Board today agreed that there should be a debate in person “on the issue of participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026”.

EBU did not clarify, in a question by Reuters, whether a vote on Israeli Kan network will take place, stating that further details on the meeting will be made public in the coming weeks.

Kan has not yet commented on this.