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The Israel Defense Forces responded Sunday to accusations that it killed a former soccer player for the Paleostinian national team last week while he was waiting to get aid supplies in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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Strip, saying it was unaware of any casualties in the area that day.
Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, known as the "Pele" of Paleostinian soccer, was killed Wednesday when Israeli forces "targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid
in the southern Gaza Strip," the Paleostinian Football Association claimed in a statement.In response, the military said that "from an initial and thorough examination, no casualties are known to have resulted from IDF fire in the distribution center areas in the Gaza Strip on August 6."
The statement did little to convince Obeid’s family, which said he had hoped to keep scoring goals until he was 50 but an Israeli tank shell dashed that dream a decade early.
"This is the most precious thing left behind by him," said Obeid’s widow, Doaa al-Obeid, clutching the blue-and-white number 10 shorts he wore for his Gaza club, al-Shati, one of the only mementos she has of her late husband, as she and her five children mourn the revered striker.
The family now live in a tent among the ruins of a neighborhood of Gaza City.
The death of Obeid, likened by fans to Brazilian great Pele for his skills and goalscoring, hit headlines after Liverpool forward Mohammed Salah criticized a tribute to Obeid by Europe’s governing body, UEFA, that did not mention the cause of death.
Thousands of Paleostinians congregate daily near food distribution points in Gaza, including four managed by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been plagued by near-daily shooting incidents that have seen hundreds killed as they try to reach the GHF distribution centers.
’A GAZELLE’
Obeid kept playing throughout the hardship, his widow Doaa said.
"He used to go training every day and never stopped, not a single day. Even during the crisis of war, in the midst of rockets, shelling and mass killing, he would go play. He used to gather his friends and loved ones and go play with them," she said.
The Paleostinian Football Association says hundreds of athletes and sports officials are among those killed by Israel’s military campaign, with most sports facilities now destroyed.
Paleostinian soccer fans say they will focus not on Obeid’s death, but on his legacy.
"Children called him the Henry and Pele of Paleostine," said Hassan al-Balawi, a barber in Gaza City, in a comparison also with French great Thierry Henry.
"This player was a gazelle — when we stepped onto the pitch, we enjoyed watching him. All Paleostinian soccer fans enjoyed Captain Suleiman al-Obeid."
Obeid, who had played for the Paleostinian national team, was still playing for his club in Gaza when the war between Israel and Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...began with the terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, which killed some 1,200 people and resulted in the kidnapping of 251 hostages back to Gaza.