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An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza.

During the Texans’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 20, Al-Shaair wrote the name of Wafaa Akila on his eye black. Wafaa was an 8-year-old girl who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on September 6. She and her father were on their way home from her first day of school.

The linebacker’s latest tribute came just days after the NFL gave him an $11,941 fine for writing Hind Rajab’s name on his eye black during another game. In a show of solidarity, Dallas Mavericks player Kyrie Irving said in a post on social media that he would “take care of his fine.”