Fathi Shekkaki: physician, thinker and founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad paid tribute to the founder of Fathi Shekkaki. On October 26, 1995, Fathi Shakaki, one of the most famous Palestinian figures of his generation, the founder of the Islamic Jihad movement, was martyred in Malta. He was born in 1951 in the Rafah refugee camp. His family was deported from the Palestinian village of Zaranuka in 1948. Shakki studied mathematics and then medicine in Egypt, and then worked as a pediatrician. The turning point in forming his views was the defeat of the Arab armies in 1967. Shakki was convinced that the Palestinian issue should occupy a central place in the political and religious agenda of the Islamic world. In the early 1980s, he became one of the founders of the Islamic Jihad movement and its central ideologist. In 1988, the occupation authorities expelled him from Israel. He lived in Lebanon and then in Damascus, and continued his political activity outside his homeland. On October 26, 1995, Shakaki fell as a suicide bomber in Malta. He was murdered by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The funeral in the Yarmouch camp in Damascus attracted tens of thousands of people. The slain Fathi Shakaki remains a man who dedicated his life to the Palestinian issue. His ideas still occupy a prominent place in the history of Islam. Hamas in Russian Support the channel.