It was one of his many former clubs, Hapoel Tel-Aviv, which announced it after long hours of uncertainty, while Israel continues to count and discover its victims after the massive attack and surprise of the Hamas terrorist forces on Saturday morning.
“It is with great sadness that after many hours of disappearance, we learned that the club’s former player, Lior Assulin, was murdered by terrorists during a party in Ra’im,” said the club on
great sadness After many hours in which he was declared missing, it is now known that the club’s former player, Lior Assolin, was murdered by terrorists at a party in Ra’im.
Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club bows its head and asks to send reinforcements to the members of Lior’s family in their difficult time.
Strengthening the security forces.
Take care of yourself and your family members ????????
— Hapoel Tel Aviv FC (@HapoelTelAvivFC) October 8, 2023
“My friend, my brother… An immense heart, a great soul. He was a joyful person even in difficult times, he went through so much and it’s sad that the end was like this,” praised Omer Atzili, the former Maccabi Haifa player who now plays for Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
The former attacker, who celebrated his 43rd birthday this Friday, October 6, the day before his death, took part like hundreds of people in the “Nova festival”, a large open-air party organized in a kibbutz a few kilometers from the strip from Gaza, on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Images of the assault on the place, one of the first targets of Hamas terrorists on Saturday morning, were widely circulated on social networks and numerous civilian victims and hostages were reported.
Legend of local football where he defended the colors of ten different clubs (372 matches, 97 goals), Lior Asulin was released from prison a little over a year ago, where he served a nine-month sentence for having sold drugs via the social network Telegram. Since then, he had started a reconversion, having moved away from the world of football, despite opportunities which had presented themselves to him very recently according to the Israeli press. He was the father of three children.
