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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.
Death. Main article: Killing of Ahmed Yassin. Yassin was killed in an Israeli attack on 22 March 2004. While he was being wheeled out of an early morning prayer session in Gaza City, [42] an Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship fired Hellfire missiles at Yassin and both of his bodyguards.
May 6, 2004 · Thursday, May 6, 2004 Posted: 11:59 AM EDT (1559 GMT) (CNN) -- Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli airstrike Monday morning as he was leaving a...
Mar 22, 2004 · CNN.com. 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.
Oct 20, 2023 · That deadlocked conflict culminated in a horrific attack last week, when Hamas burst out of the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, killing at least 1,400 people, the vast majority of them Israeli civilians. Hamas took more than 120 Israeli and foreign civilians as hostages. It is the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
Feb 16, 2005 · What’s the likely impact of the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin? Experts say the March 22 killing of Yassin, the founder of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, will likely lead to...
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.
