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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 militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.
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?
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...
Oct 10, 2023 · Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian refugee living in Gaza. By Staff and AP • Published October 10, 2023 • Updated on October 11, 2023 at 7:56 am. James Gelvin, a...
Dec 21, 2023 · Ahmed Yassin, who was partially blind and confined to a wheelchair, founded Hamas, an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement.
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.
Oct 10, 2023 · Palestinians inspect the destruction around Ahmed Yassin mosque, which was leveled by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City early on October 9.
Mar 22, 2004 · Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque Monday, prompting threats of revenge by Palestinian militants.
Oct 14, 2023 · At a clandestine meeting in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in early 2001, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin gasped and peeped.
