An-Najah News - Former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ramadan Shallah has passed a way after year of battling illness Saturday. 

Shallah, 62, served as secretary general of the Islamic Jihad from 1995 to 2018 according to Al-Manar TV .

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last night paid tribute to former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Shallah, and expressed condolences to Shallah's family saying with his death, Palestine “has lost a great national figure”.