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Abd Al Aziz Awda (Arabic: ) aka Sheik Odeh (born December 20, 1950) in Jabaliyah, Gaza Strip has Palestinian citizenship and is one of the founders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, deemed by the United States federal government to be a designated international terrorist organization. Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...
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Jabalia (Arabic: جباليا) the largest Palestinian refugee camp in existence. ...
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The emblem of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad shows a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) superimposed on the images of the Dome of the Rock, two fists and two rifles. ...
Awda was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" under United States law on January 23, 1995. A decade later, Awda was among the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list on February 24, 2006, along with PIJ secretary-general Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah. [1] January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists is a list of fugitives who have been indicted by sitting Federal Grand Juries in the United States district courts, for alleged crimes of terrorism. ...
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Awda is the spiritual leader of the PIJ and is presently still involved in the organization, which has its headquarters located in Damascus, Syria, where he likely still resides, along with other leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, including Khaled Mishal. This is about Damascus, the capital of Syria. ...
The Hamas emblem shows the Dome of the Rock, two crossed swords, Palestinian flags, and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ...
His other aliases listed by the FBI include Abdel Aziz Odeh, Abd Al Aziz Odeh, Abed Al Aziz Odeh, Abu Ahmed, Sheik Awda, Fadl Abu Ahmed, Al Sheik, The Sheik, and Mawlana. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
Jabalia village and refugee camp birthplace
Awda was born in 1950 in Jabalia (Arabic: جباليا), a village just south of the village of Beit Lahia. Jabalia village is also next to a refugee camp of the same name, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in existence. They are located at the northern end of the Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border. The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
Beit Lahia (Arabic: بيت لاهية) is a Palestinian village of about 40,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip. ...
Refugee camp for Rwandans located in what is now the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following the Rwandan Genocide A refugee camp is a camp built up by governments or NGOs (such as the ICRC) to receive refugees. ...
The First Intifada in December 1987 began in Jabalia, which has been the scene of much violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years, and a major stronghold of Hamas. Intifada A poster from 1990 The First Intifada refers to a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis between 1987 and approximately 1993, when the Oslo accords were signed and the Palestinian National Authority was established. ...
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The Hamas emblem shows the Dome of the Rock, two crossed swords, Palestinian flags, and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ...
On May 30, 2005, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in September 2000, Israel's IDF fired two rockets into the Jabalia camp, targeting militants who were planning a Kassam rocket attack on Israel. [2] May 30, 2005 (Monday) In Prague, Prince Hamid Bin Abdul Sani al-Thani of Qatar has been found guilty of sexually abusing girls younger than 15 from 2001 and 2004 and sentenced to 30 months in prison. ...
The wreckage of a commuter bus in West Jerusalem after a suicide bombing on Tuesday, 18 June 2002. ...
IDF or idf may refer to: the Israel Defense Forces the Islamic Dawah Foundation the International Diabetes Federation the AIDC Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter of Taiwan. ...
The Qassam rocket is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, developed by the Palestinian organization Hamas. ...
The camp had a registered population of 103,646 inhabitants on June 30, 2002, in an area 1.4 km² making it one of the most densely populated places on earth. [3] June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ...
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Gaza Strip history Until the 2005 Israeli pullout, The Gaza Strip, a narrow area of land along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of Egypt, was commonly referred to by modern Arab Palestinians as part of the "Israeli-occupied territories." Israel argues that it is more accurate to refer to the territories as "disputed territories." Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
The Golan Heights plateau, formerly known as the Syrian Heights, overlooking the site of the ancient city of Hippos The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories captured by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967 and held afterward. ...
Arguments about the applicability of various elements of international law underlie the debate around the Arab-Israeli conflict. ...
As a Gaza native, Abd Al Aziz Awda currently has Palestinian citizenship, in the Palestinian territories, under the Palestinian Authority. But his citizenship as a Palestinian is a modern designation after Israel's capture of the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six-day War, when the term "Palestinian" first started to be used exclusively in respect to the Arab population of Palestine. The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...
The West Bank map The Gaza Strip map Palestinian territories is one of a number of terms used to describe, from Arab point of view, areas captured by Israel in the Six-day War of 1967, whose political status has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the Palestine...
The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ...
Combatants Israel Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq Commanders Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Uzi Narkiss, Israel Tal, Ariel Sharon Abdel Hakim Amer, Abdul Munim Riad, Sharif Zaid Ibn Shaker, Hafez al-Assad Strength 50,000 troops (264,000 including mobilized reservists); 197 combat aircraft Egypt 150,000 troops; Syria 75,000; Jordan...
The Gaza Strip was historically part of the post-World War I British Mandate of Palestine. The 1947 UN Partition Plan in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 was to give the area of the Gaza Strip, demographically already 98% Arab population, to the resulting new Arab state. The failure of this plan led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the Palestinian exodus of many of the Arab Palestinian people from modern Israel. Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ...
On 29 November 1947 the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine, was approved by the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN World Headquarters in New York. ...
Map showing the UN Partition Plan. ...
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is referred to as the War of Independence (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמ×ות) or as the War of Liberation (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור) by Israelis. ...
The Palestinian exodus (Arabic: الهجرة الÙلسطينية al-Hijra al-Filasteeniya) refers to the refugee flight of Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. ...
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After the war, Egypt controlled this narrow strip of land north of its border, along the sea. That boundary was confirmed by the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt, and the narrow land then became known as the Gaza Strip. The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. ...
From 1949 until 1967, the Gaza population was then living under the occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt. Awda was born early into that occupation, in 1950. Egypt, since 1949, had recognized an "All-Palestine Government." But in 1959, when Awda turned nine years old, the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdul Nasser, annulled the All-Palestine government by decree. Map of the Gaza Strip from The World Factbook. ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر) Gamal Abdel Nasser (January 15, 1918 - September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib and is considered one of the most important Arab leaders in history. ...
In 1967, Awda turned seventeen years old, war broke out with Israel, and his homeland in the Gaza Strip changed hands, this time over to Israel, and a new era had begun. Soon thereafter, Awda left the Gaza Strip to study in Egypt.
University career Awda was educated in Arab and Islamic Studies in Cairo, Egypt. Islamic Studies is the academic discipline which focuses on Islamic issues. ...
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He later worked as a lecturer at a university and as an Imam at a mosque, both of which were located in the Gaza Strip. Imam (Arabic: إمام , Persian: امام ) is an Arabic word meaning Leader. The ruler of a country might be called the Imam, for example. ...
The Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Pakistan with an iwan at center, three domes, and five visible minarets A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad activity Awda and Fathi Shaqaqi became the original founders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when it was formed in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Awda also became known as the group's spiritual leader. Image File history File links PIJ_emblem. ...
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Fathi Shaqaqi, alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi, (1951-1995) was a Palestinian doctor who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and the initiator of suicide bombings. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), also called the Islamic Jihad and the Jihad Group, is an Egyptian Islamic group active since the late 1970s with origins in the Muslim Brotherhood. ...
Awda was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" under United States law on January 23, 1995. Later that year, Shaqaqi was assassinated in Malta in 1995, and was replaced as secretary-general of PIJ by Ramadan Shallah, who then joined Awda on the U.S. "Specially Designated Terrorist" list on November 27, 1995.
Fellow PIJ members Awda and Shallah were both indicted in a 53 count indictment in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa, Florida, on RICO charges of alleged involvement in racketeering activities for the designated international terrorist organization known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Awda is wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the the PIJ through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murders, extortions, and money laundering. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida serves the residents of thirty-five counties from eight courthouses. ...
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For that indictment, Awda and Shallah then became two of six alleged and indicted terrorist fugitives among the second and most recent group of indicted fugitives to be added to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorists list on February 24, 2006. Official FBI Seal The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency, which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
The FBI states that Awda is presently still involved in PIJ, which has its headquarters located in Damascus, Syria, where Awda likely remains as well.
References - ^ FBI Updates Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War on Terrorism Lists, FBI national Press Release, February 24, 2006
- ^ (BBC)
- ^ UNRWA Jabalia
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