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Mo Salah slams UEFA for sanitized tribute after 'Palestinian Pele' is killed in Israeli strike

Mohamed Salah has been a critic of the ongoing Israeli war which killed Palestinian football legend Suleiman al-Obeid (photo courtesy)

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has blasted UEFA for issuing what is beleived to be a sanitised and incomplete tribute to Palestinian football legend Suleiman al-Obeid, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

The Palestine Football Association says Obeid, 41, died on Wednesday when an Israeli missile struck civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip part of a war that has raged for nearly two years.

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