Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, was born in the village of Al-Joura south of the Gaza Strip in 1938.His family was one of the numerous Palestinian families expelled from their homes in what is today Israel during the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948. He moved to the Gaza Strip with his family after their village was destroyed. Yassin taught Arabic and Islamic education and was a prominent preacher in Gaza mosques.He was confined to a wheelchair due to a childhood injury at the age of 12 that left him paralyzed to the day of his assassination.After completing secondary school, Yassin left for Cairo where he spent a year studying at Ein Shams University.A lack of money forced him to cut short his studies and return home, but his year in Cairo was decisive since it was there that he became involved with the Muslim Brotherhood.Sheikh Yassin was arrested in 1983 and sentenced to 13 years in prison by an Israeli military court on charges of weapons possession, forming an underground militant organization and seeking the destruction of Israel.
He was released in 1985 as part of a prisoner swap between the Israelis and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).In 1987 and in collaboration with other Islamic activists, Sheikh Yassin founded the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.He was at the time the Gaza-based leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.Sheikh Yassin was rearrested by the Israeli occupation authorities in 1989 along with hundreds of his followers.He was sentenced to life in prison for his role in founding Hamas and inciting the killing of Israeli soldiers.Father to 11 children, Yassin was finally released in 1997 in a deal between Jordan and Israel in exchange for Israeli assassins arrested in Jordan. During his years in Israeli jails, white-bearded Yassin lost vision in his right eye and had very little vision in the left one.He also suffered from a number of chronic respiratory diseases, muscular deterioration and hearing loss incurred while in Israeli detention.Yassin's emblematic image is ubiquitous throughout the Gaza Strip, and adorns Israeli prison cells of many Palestinians.He frequently said Hamas was willing to stop its operations if Israel ended the occupation of Palestinian territories and stopped killing Palestinian women, children and innocent civilians.Yassin played a key role in the recent years at the Palestinian political landscape.He helped hold on the fires of Hamas activists and fighters and strike the right balance between the resistance factions and the Palestinian Authority.On September 6, an Israeli F-16 fighter jet fired several missiles at a three-story building at Al-Rimal downtown neighborhood in Gaza City where Sheikh Yassin was but he survived with just a small wound to his hand.
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oh you martyr of Islam may Allah the most merciful and the most compassionate grant you Jannatul Firdaus.May He give triumph to our Mujahideen brothers in Palestine over the fiercest enemies of humanity, the killers of Prophets and righteous people, and may He support Mujahideen in all lands of Jihad, He is The All-Hearer, The One that answers the Du’a.
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