{"id":57855,"date":"2025-08-09T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57855\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:24:07","slug":"palestine-soccer-star-suleiman-al-obeid-dies-at-age-41-palestinian-pele-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57855\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine soccer star Suleiman Al-Obeid dies at age 41: &#8216;Palestinian Pele&#8217; killed in Israeli attack in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"palestine.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/palestine.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Former Palestinian national team player, Suliman Al-Obeid, was killed on Wednesday by an Israeli strike while waiting for international aid, the Palestine Football Association announced. Known as the &#8220;Palestinian Pele,&#8221; the 41-year-old scored more than 100 goals for Gaza Sport. Al-Obeid is survived by his wife and five children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He began his career with Khadamat al-Shati and also spent time playing for Markaz Shabab al-Am&#8217;ari. Al-Obeid debuted for the Palestinian national team in 2007 and would go on to be capped 24 times and score twice. One of the biggest stars in Palestinian soccer, Al-Obeid also scored a memorable scissor kick against Yemen in the 2010 West Asian Football Federation championship.<\/p>\n<p>Since October of 2023, 662 people associated with sports have been killed, including 321 from the soccer community, according to the Palestine Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestine national team will play their next match on September 8, facing Malaysia in a friendly to gear up for World Cup qualifying, which is currently in the third round in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Former Palestinian national team player, Suliman Al-Obeid, was killed on Wednesday by an Israeli strike while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-57855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}