Biography
Fathi Shaqaqi was born in 1951 under Egyptian rule in Gaza, to a refugee family from Jaffa. When Shaqaqi was older he attended college at the West Bank University of Bir Zeit, located in the Palestine territories, where he studied mathematics. In the 1970s he went on to study medicine in Egypt, and it was here, during his medical training that he became strongly influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. He returned to Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) where he practiced medicine in Jerusalem. While in Egypt Shaqaqi was also strongly influenced by the Iranian Islamic Revolution that took place in January 1979, led by Ayatollah Khomeini. Before being kicked out of Egypt he joined the military group known as, Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the early 1980s. Although he had originally been influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, he quickly developed negative feelings. He had expressed numerous times his disappointment for their reformist agenda. He was expelled due to his radical philosophy, and after the assassination of the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. Saadat was assassinated by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad on 6 October 1981. It was upon his return to Gaza that he formed, along with Abd Al Aziz Awda (a.k.a. Sheik Odeh), a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. This branch is presently known as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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