Ayman Alkurd (12 July 1980 – 13 January 2009) was a Palestinian footballer who played for the Palestine national team and his last team was Falasteen Al-Riyadi.[1]

Alkurd died on 13 January 2009, at the age of 29, during the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on his building.[2] Additional casualties of the military operation include former national player Wajeh Moshate and a member of the National Olympic Committee of Palestine, Khalil Abed Jaber. Another player on the national team, Mahmoud Sarsak, was jailed for three years with no apparent reason.[3]

References

  1. ^ Blatter's 'solace in time of sadness' Archived 31 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Three Palestinian internationals killed in Gaza violence
  3. ^ Zirin, Dave (2013). Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. New York City, NY: The New Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-59558-842-5.


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