Abdallah Frangi

Abdullah Franji also known as Abdullah Frangi, (born 1943) is a Fatah member and one of its leaders in Gaza. He has held various posts in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestine National Authority.

Early life and education Franji was born in Beersheba, Mandate Palestine, on 15 November 1943. They later settled in Cairo in 1956 during the Suez crisis.

Franji obtained degrees in medicine and in politics in Germany between 1963 and 1973.

Franji was hospitalized after he and Eli Lobel, a member of the Israeli dissident group Matzpen, were attacked and injured in an event organized by the Socialist German Student Union to protest the talk of the Israeli ambassador to West Germany Asher Ben-Natan in the summer of 1969. The perpetrators of the attack were Zionists. and became one of the advisers on European affairs to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

Views Franji stated in an interview with Der Spiegel in 2006 that the relations between Fatah and Hamas would be better after the recognition of the two-state solution by Hamas. However, two years later he argued that Hamas was responsible for the end of ceasefire in 2007.