Ramadan Abdullah Mohammed Shalah (Arabic:رمضانعبداللهمحمدشلح;1January 1958[1] –6June 2020) was a Palestinian military officer and the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ),a militant anti-Zionist group,between 27October 1995 and 2018.
In April 2018,Shalah suffered a series of strokes,and on 28September 2018 was replaced by Ziyad al-Nakhalah as PIJ leader.
During the 23 years of his leadership of PIJ,the group undertook numerous attacks on Israeli civilians,including suicide bombings;and has suffered extensive operations against its infrastructure carried out by the IDF,which resulted in severe losses to the group,and it appeared significantly weakened by 2004.[4][5]
Early life
Shalah was born in Shuja'iyya,also called Gaza Sejaiya district,a neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.[3]
Professor Sami Al-Arian helped bring Shalah to Al-Arian's university,the University of South Florida,in Tampa,Florida,where Shalah taught as an adjunct professor,and where he was appointed by Al-Arian as head of WISE. Shalah left in 1995 to head PIJ.
Al-Arian would later plead guilty to helping PIJ,and was sentenced to 57 months in prison. Al-Arian said he was shocked to learn Shalah was "anything other than a scholar."[7]
Palestinian Islamic Jihad activity
Shalah became secretary-general of PIJ in 1995,after the assassination of its previous leader,Fathi Shiqaqi in Malta. On becoming secretary-general of PIJ,Shalah was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the United States on 27 November 1995.[2]
For that indictment,Shalah then became one of six alleged and indicted terrorist fugitives among the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the United States FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on 24 February 2006,[3] along with Abd Al Aziz Awda.[9] They were wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the designated international terrorist organization,known as the "Palestinian Islamic Jihad".
Death
Shalah died on 6 June 2020 in Lebanon after a long illness that included two years in a coma.[10] His funeral was held in Damascus and was attended by Ziyad al-Nakhalah,who had replaced him as head of the PIJ movement.
Iqtiṣādīyāt al-mālīyah al-ʻāmmah wa-al-niẓām al-mālīfīal-Islām,al-Jāmiʻāt al-Islāmiyah,1984,359 p. On Islamic economics,particularly public finance.
al-Gharb wa-al-ṣirāʻʻaláFilasṭīn fīal-qarn al-ḥādīwa-al-ʻishrīn,Markaz Filasṭīn lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth,1999,35 p. On the West when it comes to the Palestinian struggle.
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