Ahmed Yassin | |
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أحمد ياسين | |
Born | June 1936 |
Died | 22 March 2004 | (aged 67)
Cause of death | Assassination |
Nationality | Palestinian |
Education | Al-Azhar University, Cairo |
Occupations |
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Organization | Hamas |
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 Palestinian militant Islamist and nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.[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, which is designated a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and several other countries.[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] 200,000 Palestinians attended his funeral procession 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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