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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.
Jan 1, 2024 · Nineteen years after the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and approximately 85 years after his birth, he remains a contentious figure, condemned by Hamas’s opponents as a “terrorist” leader...
On 22 March 2004, the Palestinian leader and one of the founders of the Hamas militant organization, Ahmed Yassin, 67, was assassinated in Gaza City. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was returning from performing the Fajr prayer, and his companions were also killed immediately.
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?
Mar 24, 2010 · Israel granted Sheikh Yassin his greatest wish, gave unprecedented boost to the resistance movement in occupied Palestine, and made of him a resistance icon in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Mar 22, 2004 · The founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed by an Israeli airstrike as he left a mosque near his home in Gaza City early in the morning.
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Oct 20, 2023 · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the imam who founded it, was a blind paraplegic who ran one of the strip’s biggest welfare organisations, though his spiritual demeanour disguised a cold-blooded willingness...
