Fathi Shikaki

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Fathi Shikaki (Arabic: فتحي الشقاقي, Hebrew: פתחי א-שקאקי ), lived 1951-1995, was the founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and served as its first secretary-general.

Shikaki began his activities as a member of the Islamic Jihad in the mid 1980s and was the head of one of its branches. In 1986 he was arrested by Israeli police and was subsequently expelled from the country during the First Intifada. After his expulsion he managed to reorganize the Islamic Jihad and became, almost exclusively, its leader.

On the 26th of October 1995, he arrived in Malta by ferry from Libya after adopting the false identity of a Libyan citizen under the name Ibrahim Shawish. After checking in at the "Diplomat" hotel, he went out to the city. On his way back to the hotel, he was shot three times and killed by two Mossad agents on a motorcycle.