Abd Al Aziz Awda, also known as 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. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jabalya (جباليا is a Palestinian City located four kilometers north of Gaza City The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة, רצועת עזה Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين - Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
Awda was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" under United States law on January 23, 1995. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 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. The Federal Bureau of Investigation 's " Most Wanted Terrorists " is a list of Fugitives who have been indicted by sitting Federal Grand Juries Events 303 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah (رمضان عبد الله محمد شلح is a Palestinian academic and one of the founders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad [1]
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 Mashal. Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة Khaled Mashal, also known as Khaled Mashaal or Khalid Mish'al (خالد مشعل (b
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.
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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. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Beit Lahia (بيت لاهيا is a city located north of Jabalia, near Beit Hanoun and the 1949 Armistice Line with Israel. Jabalia village is also next to a refugee camp of the same name, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in existence. A refugee camp is a temporary camp built by a government the United Nations, international organizations (such as the Red Cross) or NGOs to receive They are located at the northern end of the Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border. The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة, רצועת עזה Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics.
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. The First Intifada (1987–1993 (also " Intifada " and "war of the stones" was a mass Palestinian uprising against Israeli Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة
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. May 30 2005 (Monday In Prague, Prince Hamid Bin Abdul Sani al-Thani of Qatar has been found guilty The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit The Qassam rocket ( صاروخ القسام; also Kassam) is a simple steel Rocket filled with explosives produced by Hamas. [2]
The camp had a registered population of 103,646 inhabitants on June 30, 2002, in an area 1. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. 4 km² making it one of the most densely populated places on earth. [3]
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. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. The are the territories captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967 consisting of the West " Israel argues that it is more accurate to refer to the territories as "disputed territories."
As a Gaza native, Abd Al Aziz Awda currently has Palestinian citizenship, in the Palestinian territories, under the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn Name There are differences of opinion as to what the Palestinian territories should be called 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. Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt
The Gaza Strip was historically part of the post-World War I British Mandate of Palestine. The Palestine Mandate, was a set of protocols or articles that formed a multilateral legal and administrative agreement 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 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 was a plan approved by the General Assembly on November 29 The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 was a plan approved by the General Assembly on November 29 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. The 1948 Palestinian exodus (الهجرة الفلسطينية al-Hijra al-Filasteeniya) referred to by Palestinians as al Naqba (النكبة Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn
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, Lebanon, Jordan
From 1949 until 1967, the Gaza population was then living under the occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt. Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt: 1947 - October 1956 March 1957 - June 1967 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. Gamal Abdel Nasser (جمال عبد الناصر Gamāl ‘Abd an-Nāṣir; - January 15 1918 September 28 1970) was the second President
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. This is a sub-article to Religious education, Academic discipline, and Islam. Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt.
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. An imam (إمام plural ائمة A'immah, امام is an Islamic leader often the leader of a Mosque and/or community A "mosque" in English refers to all types of buildings dedicated for Islamic worship although there is a distinction in Arabic between the smaller privately owned mosque and the larger
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. Fathi Shaqaqi, alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi, (1951 &ndash 1995 was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad ( الجهاد الإسلامي المصري) ( EIJ) formerly called simply Islamic Jihad ( الجهاد Awda also became known as the group's spiritual leader.
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. Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands 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. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida serves the residents of thirty-five counties from eight courthouses The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly referred to as RICO Act or RICO) is a United States federal law that provides for extended Awda is wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the PIJ through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murders, extortions, and money laundering.
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.
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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