Ahmed Yassin | |
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أحمد ياسين | |
 Yassin in 2004 | |
| Chairman of the Hamas Shura Council | |
| In office 10 December 1987 – 22 March 2004 | |
| Deputy | Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi |
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| Born | Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin June 1936 Al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine[1] (now known as Ashkelon, Israel) |
| Died | 22 March 2004 (aged 67) Gaza City, Gaza Strip |
| Manner of death | Assassination |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party | Hamas |
| Education | Al-Azhar University, Cairo |
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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004)[2] was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas[a] in 1987. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto leader of Hamas since its inception from December 1987 until his assassination in March 2004.[3][4][5][6][7]
Yassin was born in Ashkelon, in Mandatory Palestine in 1929 or 1936.[2] His family fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestine War to Gaza City. Yassin, a quadriplegic who was nearly blind, had been reliant on a wheelchair due to a sporting accident at the age of 12.
After its founding, he served as the spiritual leader of Hamas, a Sunni Islamist group.[8] The Israeli government held him responsible for the killing of several Israeli civilians.[9] In 2004, he was killed when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at him as he was being wheeled from Fajr prayer in Gaza City.[10] The attack, which also killed both of his bodyguards and nine bystanders, was internationally condemned.[10] His funeral procession was attended by 200,000 people in Gaza.[11]
- ^ Kabahā 2014, pp. 323.
- ^ a b "Sheikh Ahmad Yassin". Jewish Virtual Library. 2004. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
Ahmed Yassin's Palestinian passport listed his date of birth as 1 January 1929, but Palestinian sources listed his birth year as 1937 (other Western media reported it as 1938).
- ^ Uschan, Michael V. (January 2006). Suicide Bombings in Israel and Palestinian Terrorism. Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-8368-6561-5. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ Charny, Israel W. (2007). Fighting suicide bombing: A Worldwide Campaign for Life. London, England: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-275-99336-8. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ Berko, Anat (2007). "Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas founder: "The shaheed doesn't die, he lives with Allah"". The path to paradise: the inner world of suicide bombers and their dispatchers. Abc-Clio, LLC. ISBN 978-0-275-99446-4. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ Costigan, Sean S.; Gold, David (26 April 2007). Terrornomics. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-4995-3. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ Brookes, Peter (March 2007). A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Rogue States. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7425-4953-1. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "The life and death of Shaikh Yasin". Al Jazeera. 24 March 2004. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ Prusher, Ilene R. (23 March 2004). "Killing of Yassin a Turning Point". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
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