On August 8, 2025, while waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza strip, Suleiman al-Obeid was killed in an Israeli attack. He was known in the Eruopa League of football (Uefa) as “the Palestinian Pele”  He is only one of 60,000 Palestinians who have died in Israel’s far right politician’s war against Palestine.

Suleiman was remembered by his league as, “A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.”