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Palestinian group denies leader was in coma

Islamic Jihad says its chief was in a stable condition

10.04.2018 - Update : 10.04.2018
Palestinian group denies leader was in coma Ramadan Shallah, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement

Palestinian Territory

RAMALLAH, Palestine 

Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian resistance group based in the Gaza Strip, has denied reports that its secretary-general Ramadan Shallah was in a coma.  

Media reports earlier said that Shallah, 60, was comatose after a series of operations in Lebanon, where he is based.  

In a statement on Tuesday, Islamic Jihad said Shallah had recently undergone a heart surgery.  

“His condition is stable and is subject to medical follow-up," the group said.  

Palestinian news agency Quds Press earlier said, citing a source close to Islamic Jihad, Shallah had fallen into a coma after he underwent a heart surgery in Beirut.  

The agency also said that a security official at the Palestinian Embassy in Beirut had raised suspicions that the group chief might have been poisoned, pointing the finger at Israel’s Mossad spy agency or a “security apparatus or a regional state”, without elaborating.  

A co-founder of Islamic Jihad, Shallah was elected the group’s secretary-general in 1995.  

Shallah is on the FBI’s list of most wanted for allegedly conspiring to carry out attacks against Israel.

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