Fadi Mohammed al-Batsh 35 years old was born in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. He was killed in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia at the hands of unknown gunmen at dawn Saturday 21/4/2018 and is survived by his wife and three children. He has been living in Malaysia for many years.
He has obtained his BAs and MAs degrees in electrical engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza in late 2009.
Al-Batsh received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malaya Malaysia in 2015. His research was entitled “Raising the efficiency of power transmission networks using power electronics technology.”
He was a university professor in electrical engineering specializing in power electronics at the University of Kuala Lumpur.
Al-Batsh was assassinated by two unknown gunmen who fired several bullets at him hitting his head and body when he was attempting to head for dawn prayer in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. His family pointed fingers at the Israeli Mossad.
During his academic career al-Batsh has published 18 journal articles in international journals and conferences. He participated in an international conference in Japan. He also took part at international research conferences in Britain Finland Spain and Saudi Arabia as well as in local conferences in Malaysia.
Al-Batsh received many prestigious scientific awards including the 2016 Malaysian Khazanah Award the highest award given in Malaysia. He was given this award for his scientific and academic excellence and achievement of a number of inventions and he was the first Palestinian to win the Khazanah scholarship and the first Arab scholar to win the Best Researcher Award.
At the time al-Batsh said “I wanted to convey a message to the world that Palestinians are insistent to be creative and nothing could stop them.” He pointed out that the Khazanah Scholarship was “reserved for Malaysian students only before the government agreed to include Palestinian students and I was the first Palestinian and Arab to win it.”
The family of the martyr said he was supposed to leave Malaysia on Sunday to Turkey to head an international conference on power.
Al-Batsh dedicated his latest posts on social media to the Palestinian journalist martyr Yasser Murtaja who was shot by the Israeli military two weeks ago while covering protests in eastern Gaza borders.
Al-Batsh tweeted speaking of Murtaja “May God have mercy on you. You are the martyr of the truth that Zionists wanted to hide by killing you … Yasser a young man with a beautiful smile and face. You are a free man. I loved you although I never met you. We will follow your path.”
Al-Batsh’s father told Aljazeera that the family holds the Israeli Mossad responsible calling on the Malaysian government to open an urgent investigation to reveal the circumstances of the assassination.
He said that his son was “very smart in the field of electrical engineering and has won several international awards in the field and that is why Israel saw him as a threat.”
The Israeli Mossad targets Arab and Muslim scientists in many countries with the aim of not allowing Arab and Muslim scientists to prove themselves in the fields of power and technology.
