Ramadan Abdullah Shalah was appointed as secretary-general of the Palestine Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ) in 1995 after the assassination of Fathi Shaqaqi by the Zionist regime. He was in charge for 23 years until 2018 and finally died on June 6, 2020, after a long illness, and his body was buried in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, beside Fathi al-Shaqaqi , the martyred leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement. 205