After ex-soccer player said killed while waiting for aid in southern Gaza, IDF says it’s unaware of any casualties in area that day

By Emanuel Fabian

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10 August 2025, 6:37 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Palestinian soccer player Suleiman al-Obeid in an undated photo. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After it was reported that a former soccer player for the Palestinian national team was killed while waiting to get aid supplies in the southern Gaza Strip last week, the IDF says it is unaware of any casualties in the area that day.

Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed Wednesday when Israeli forces “targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip,” the Palestinian Football Association claimed in a statement.

In response, the military says 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.”