Fathi Shaqaqi (Arabic: فتحي الشقاقي), alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi (1951 – 26 October 1995), was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and was the initiator of suicide bombings.
He formed along with Sheik Odeh (a.k.a. Abd Al Aziz Awda) the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, initially as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Like many leaders of the Islamic Jihad Movement Martyr Fathi Shaqaqi was a convert to Shia Islam.