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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, a Palestinian militant Islamist and nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.
Oct 20, 2023 · How did Ahmed Yassin go from a spiritual leader running a charity, to the co-founder of the ferocious political and paramilitary group Hamas?
Jan 1, 2024 · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin grew up as a refugee in Gaza after he was driven out of Al-Jaura, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948 by Zionist forces, along with his family. In 1987, Yassin...
22 hours ago · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli helicopter strike in Gaza City in March 2004. Yassin, a wheelchair-bound Palestinian cleric, was among those ...
1 day ago · Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin talks with his office director Ismail Haniyeh at his home in the Gaza Strip [File: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters] Failed 2003 Israeli assassination attempt.
1 day ago · ahmed yassin Israel killed the quadriplegic co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed, in a helicopter missile strike on March 22, 2004 as he left a mosque in Gaza City.
22 hours ago · The long list of Hamas leaders killed by Israel includes Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s founder and spiritual leader, in 2004; Salah Shehadeh, the founder of Hamas’s armed wing, in 2002; Abdel Aziz ...
21 hours ago · By the end of the following year, it had assassinated the group’s founder and Haniyeh’s mentor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and then-leader, Abdel Aziz Rantisi.
1 day ago · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin speaks with his office director Ismail Haniyeh at his home in Gaza in June 2002 after being placed under house arrest by the Palestinian Authority [Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters ...
Dec 21, 2023 · Ahmed Yassin, who was partially blind and confined to a wheelchair, founded Hamas, an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement. His most eager student was Sinwar, a young man in his mid-20s who...
