Ahmed Yassin | |
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أحمد ياسين | |
Yassin in 2004 | |
Chairman of the Hamas Shura Council | |
In office 10 December 1987 – 22 March 2004 | |
Deputy | Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi |
Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi |
Personal details | |
Born | Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin June 1936 Al-Jura, Mandatory Palestine[1] (now known as Ashkelon, Israel) |
Died | 22 March 2004 Gaza City, Gaza Strip | (aged 67)
Manner of death | Assassination |
Nationality | Palestinian |
Political party | Hamas |
Education | Al-Azhar University, Cairo |
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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004)[2] was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas[a] in 1987. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de-facto leader of Hamas since its inception from December 1987 until his assassination in March 2004.[3][4][5][6][7]
Yassin was born in Ashkelon, in Mandatory Palestine in 1929 or 1936. His family fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestine War to Gaza City. Yassin, a quadriplegic[8] who was nearly blind, had been reliant on a wheelchair due to a sporting accident at the age of 12.
After its founding, he served as the spiritual leader of Hamas, a Sunni Islamist group.[9] The Israeli government held him responsible for the killing of several Israeli civilians.[10] In 2004, he was killed when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at him as he was being wheeled from Fajr prayer in Gaza City.[11] The attack, which also killed both of his bodyguards and nine bystanders, was internationally condemned.[11] His funeral procession was attended by 200,000 people in Gaza.[12]
Ahmed Yassin's Palestinian passport listed his date of birth as 1 January 1929, but Palestinian sources listed his birth year as 1937 (other Western media reported it as 1938).
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