Salah criticises UEFA tribute to ‘Palestinian Pele’

Former Palestinian planetary subordinate Suleiman Al-Obeid was killed by an Israeli onslaught connected assistance seekers successful Gaza connected Wednesday.

Liverpool guardant Mohamed Salah has criticised the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)’s tribute to the precocious Suleiman Al-Obeid, known arsenic the “Palestinian Pele,” aft European football’s governing assemblage failed to notation the circumstances surrounding his decease this week.

The Palestine Football Association said that Al-Obeid, 41, was killed by an Israeli attack connected civilians waiting for humanitarian assistance successful the confederate Gaza Strip connected Wednesday.

In a little station connected the societal media level X, UEFA called the erstwhile nationalist squad subordinate “a endowment who gave anticipation to countless children, adjacent successful the darkest of times”.

Salah responded: “Can you archer america however helium died, where, and why?”

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— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) August 9, 2025

UEFA was not instantly disposable to remark erstwhile contacted by the Reuters quality agency.

One of the Premier League’s biggest stars, the 33-year-old Egyptian, Salah, has previously advocated for humanitarian aid to beryllium allowed into Gaza during the astir two-year-long war.

The United Nations says that much than 1,000 radical person been killed adjacent assistance organisation sites and assistance convoys successful Gaza since the motorboat of the GHF, a United States- and Israel-backed assistance organisation system, successful precocious May.

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