On Friday, May 27, 15-year-old player Zeid Mohammad Ghneim, a young football talent in AlKhader Academy was shot to death by Israeli occupation soldiers in his hometown of Alkhader.
Zeid was protesting the upcoming Israeli "Flag March", an annual parade marking the illegal Israeli annexation of Eastern Jerusalem, and is attended by thousands of far-right Israelis and seen by many to be racist, anti-Palestinian, and violent. Eyewitnesses reported that Zeid, who had joined his townfolk in an un-armed demonstration, was cornered in an alley and shot in the back and neck by the Israeli soldiers.
