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Family honour ‘Palestinian Pele’ killed in Gaza
Gulf Today
|August 11, 2025
The “Pele” of Palestinian soccer hoped to keep scoring goals until he was 50. An Israeli tank shell dashed that dream a decade early, his family said, killing Suleiman Al-Obeid as he queued in southern Gaza this week to collect food.
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Obeid’s widow Doaa Al-Obeid now clutches the blue-and-white number IO 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 41-year-old striker.
"This is the most precious thing left behind by him," she said.
The family have few other belongings of Obeid, whose home was destroyed in a bombardment earlier this year. They now live in a tent among the ruins of a neighbourhood of Gaza City.
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