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5 days ago · Born in Al-Jura village, Al-Majdal district in 1936; then a refugee to Gaza in 1948, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood teachers in the mid 1950’s and became a member in 1955 while studying at Al-Azhar University in Cairo-Egypt, despite having no previous religious education.
5 days ago · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s legacy is still very much alive. The seeds sown by he and his colleagues, including Rantisi, have bloomed into the current generation of resistance fighters who strike fear into the hearts of Israeli soldiers. In one video on social media a sergeant in Israel’s elite Golani Brigade said: “We are fighting ghosts.
5 days ago · With the outbreak of the second intifada a few years later, the assassinations ramped up, and in 2004, Israel killed Hamas’s founder, Ahmed Yassin. A 2006 study by the scholars Mohammed Hafez and Joseph Hatfield examined rates of Hamas violence before and after such assassinations and concluded that their impact was negligible.
5 days ago · On 17 April 2004, less than a month after the assassination of the Islamic Resistance Movement’s elderly, wheelchair-bound spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, his protege the Lion of...
2 days ago · Increasingly violent Hamas attacks on civilian and military targets impelled Israel to arrest a number of Hamas leaders in 1989, including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement’s founder. In the years that followed, Hamas underwent reorganization to reinforce its command structure and locate key leaders out of Israel’s reach.
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2 days ago · 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...
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4 days ago · Israel has killed Hamas’ leaders in the past, including the group’s founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and its former leader Abdel-Aziz Al-Rantisi, assassinated in a 2004 air strike. New commanders rose to fill their ranks.
