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1 day 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.
Mar 22, 2004 · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. When the half-blind, almost wholly paralysed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin arrived in Gaza in October 1997 after his release from an Israeli jail in exchange for Mossad agents caught ...
Syeikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin ( Arab: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين ; 22 Jun 1937 – 22 Mac 2004) [2] adalah pengasas pertubuhan Palestin Hamas. Dilahirkan di desa Al-Jura, tepi Al-Mijdal, selatan semenanjung Gaza (sekarang dekat Ashqelon di Negara Haram Israel ). Ketika masih kanak-kanak, beliau dan keluarganya ...
Feb 16, 2005 · Yassin, 67, was the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.He was born near the city of Ashkelon, now part of Israel, and moved to Gaza as a refugee after the state of Israel was created in 1948 ...
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin is the religious leader of Hamas, the organization that has done as much as any other to change the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a political struggle to a religious war. Yassin has never been accused of murder or setting off a bomb himself. But his organization, Hamas, has been the main source of suicide bombers, a ...
Mar 22, 2004 · Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, was a frail quadriplegic who could barely see. His voice was thin and quavering. Yet he wielded growing power among Palestinians, long frustrated with a peace process that has failed to improve their lives. Thousands of cheering supporters turned out to watch him vow revenge for ...
Mar 23, 2004 · Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. Responding to Monday's assassination of Hamas founder Shaykh Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei stated, "Yassin is known for his moderation, and he was controlling the Hamas ...
