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heikh Abdullah Shami, one to private Palestinian cars. Re-
of the ranking leaders of Is- strictions were tightened on
lamic Jihad in the Gaza Israeli civilians entering Gaza.
Strip, leaves the Gaza City
At the time of his death, Dr.
o ice of Al Isttqlal, the move- Shkaki, a bearded, bespectacled
ment's weekly paper, and wad- pediatrician, was traveling on a
dles slowly to his parked car.
false passport from his base in
He inspects it from all angles, Damascus to Tripoli, where he
then cautiously raises the hood planned to lobby President
and peers inside. Having satis- Muammar Khaddafi to stop ex-
fied himself that it is not booby- pelling thousands of Palestinian
trapped, the stocky, bearded labourers from Libya.
sheikh gets in and drives off
For an underground leader,
It was Sunday, Oct. 29, the day the flamboyant Dr. Shkaki was
Islamic Jihad, the most intransi- surprisingly negligent about his
gent of the Palestinian opposition personal security. Any foreign cor-
groups, confirmed that its exiled respondent visiting Damascus
secretary-general, Dr Fathi Shka- was welcome to interview him.
ki, had been assassinated in Mal-
He was twice interviewed by
ta.
Linda Scherzer, an American -
No one in Gaza doubts that the born reporter for Israel television.
two gunmen, who escaped by Islamic Jihad claimed afterwards
•motor-bike, were agents of that he did not realize whom she
Mossad, the Israeli secret service. worked for, though it would have
Few, if any, in Israel would argue been easy enough to check.
with them, though official spokes-
His message, then and in oth-
men were saying nothing.
er interviews, had the clarity of
Dr. Shkaki, a 45-year-old cold fanaticism. Asked recently
father of three, is believed to have when Islamic Jihad would give
been on Israel's hit list since he up its struggle, he smiled: "When
boasted to the world's television Israel is not there any more."
cameras that Islamic Jihad had
He told Linda Scherzer: "I have
despatched the three suicide nothing against Jews, but peace
bombers who killed 29 Israelis will not last in this area as long
earlier this year at Beit Lid in as there is an Israeli state."
northern Israel and the Kfar
After his murder, in a leaflet
Darom settlement in the Gaza Islamic Jihad threatened to
Strip.
"make the earth burn" under
If the object of the exercise was every Israeli's feet. It denounced
to remind jihad plotters that the the Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ra-
long hand of Israeli retribution bin, as a "terrorist" and promised
would always find them, Sheikh more suicide bombings.
Shami's slow waltz in the Gaza
Israeli security sources suspect
City parking lot suggests that the that the bombers may find it eas-
message was received and un- ier to hit Jewish targets abroad
derstood. Above the reception than in Israel, now that Israeli
desk in Al Istiqlal's office is a and Palestinian security services
memorial portrait of Hani Abed, are cooperating.
the paper's founding editor and
"Every Zionist," the jihad -
jihad ideologue, whose car blew leaflet proclaimed, "wherever he-
up under him in the southern may be found, will be a target for
Gaza Strip last year. There are our blows and our exploding bod-
no hiding places, even under ies. We promise God, the Pales-
Palestinian self-rule.
tinian and Islamic peoples to
But the fundamentalists were continue in our way, illuminated
not the only ones protecting their by the blood of our glorious
backs in the wake of the Shkaki martyrs."
assassination. Israel went on high
Sheikh Nafez Azam, the polit-
alert against revenge attacks. ical leader of Islamic Jihad in
Precautions were ordered at Is- Gaza, reinforced the message:
raeli diplomatic missions and "This crime shows that the
Jewish institutions abroad.
Israelis are not serious when they
At home, Arab students were talk about peace with the Pales-
barred from crossing Israel from tini ans. We have a duty to defend
the Gaza Strip to attend classes ou rselves against this kind of
at West Bank universities. The ag gression."
old "green-line" bonier was closed
Independent Palestinian ob-
se rvers in Gaza question the wis-
Eric Silver is a senior writer for
do m of the Shkaki assassination,
the Jerusalem Report.
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