Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed Ismail
- Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed Ismail
(1934-2004)
An Islamic scholar, he was a founder of the
Gaza wing of the
Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood. Born in Ashkelon, he became a quadriplegic and was nearly blind due to serious illness at a young age. In 1984, he was sentenced to 13 years in Israeli prison for possession of arms but was released a year later as part of an exchange in which six Israeli soldiers captured in
Lebanon were traded for 1,000
Palestinian security prisoners.
Yassin was the principal founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement (
Hamas) on 14 December 1987, only days after the start of the Palestinian
intifada. In 1989, he was sentenced to a life term in prison for issuing orders to kidnap and kill four Israeli soldiers. He was released to
Jordan on 1 October 1997 in the aftermath of the
Mashaal affair and was subsequently permitted to return to his home in
Gaza. There, he continued to inspire Hamas's political and military resistance against Israel; he also was openly critical of the
Oslo Accords and
Yasser Arafat's administration of areas of the
West Bank and Gaza transferred to Palestinian control. Yassin was killed by Israeli forces on 22 March 2004.
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