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. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property carried out in a way deliberately calculated to cause the death of the perpetrator (see suicide, suicide weapons). ...

He formed Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, initally as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... 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. ...

He was shot in 1995 in front of the Diplomat Hotel in Slema, Malta, most probably by two Mossad agents. Shaqaqi, travelling under the false name of Dr Ibrahim Shaweshi, had come to Malta four times since 1993. He was on his way to Tripoli to visit Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi who was promising to help finance Shaqaqi’s factions. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official seal of the Mossad Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. ... Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-QadhdhāfÄ«) (born 1942), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ...

A man walked up to Shaqaqi as he was returning to his hotel and shot him in quick succession with a gun equipped with a silencer and a container to hold the used cartridges. Shaqaqi’s assassins had smuggled a motorcycle into Malta which they used to escape with after shooting the Palestinian leader. Abandoning the motorcycle, a third individual drove them to the Msida Marina from where they most probably boarded a fast boat which took them out at sea and eventually to a large ship from where the whole operation was probably directed. The Maltese police were only able to identify the corpse three days later.

External links

• Bio of Fathi Shiqaqi from the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem