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Sheikh Yassin…Symbol Of Occupation Resistance
Shaykh Ahmad Yasin was brutally assassinated in the early hours of 22 March 2004.
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 today is Occupied Palestine 1948, before the first Zionist-Arab war in 1948.
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 murder.
Sheikh Yassin was arrested in 1983 and sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Zionist military court on charges of weapons possession, forming an underground resistance organization and seeking the destruction of the Zionist entity.
He was released in 1985 as part of a prisoner swap between the Zionists 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 Zionist 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 Zionist terrorists.
Father to 11 children, Yassin was finally released in 1997 in a deal between Jordan and the Zionist entityin exchange for Zionist assassins arrested in Jordan.
During his years in Zionist 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 Zionist detention.
He frequently said Hamas was willing to stop its operations if the Zionists 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, a Zionist 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.
Extracted from http://www.hamasonline.com
Hamas has issued a statement promising to avenge the death of its founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. Here is a rough translation:
O Murderous Zionists, you have bestowed martyrdom upon our Sheikh, and we will bestow violent death upon you on every city and every street.
O masses of our Mujaheed and Islamic people, the sons of our Palestinian people:
The terrorist Zionist Nazis have targeted our founding leader His Eminence the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, after performing morning prayers at the Islamic Complex [Al-Mujamma al-Islami] Mosque.
What the Zionists have committed today illustrates the pinnacle of breakdown and failure.
By directing their rancorous rockets at the chair of the disabled Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin, they thought they had killed him.
The Zionists did not know that millions of Muslims will go out to "visit
with destruction all that fell into their power" [part of Koranic verse].
Today, Ahmed Yassin will come out from every city, street, and alley to grant them violent death, after they have granted him martyrdom, which total paralysis did not prevent him from seeking.
Today, the criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon has issued a death sentence for hundreds of Israelis on every street and every inch of land occupied by the Zionists.
We vow Sheikh Abu Muhammad [Ahmed Yassin] to continue our march, and pursueZionists everywhere they hide.
Abu Muhammad, your martyrdom-seeking sons will inform you of their retaliation soon.
So rest in peace our leader, teacher, sheikh, instructor, icon, our joy, and our dearest.
O Sheikh, Palestine and the Islamic nation will not miss you because you have planted strong righteous men in every house and every street. They have carried your thought and marched on your path.
While announcing to the entire world the death of the founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Group in Palestine, His Eminence Leader Sheikh Ahmed Isma'il Yassin, also known as Abu-Muhammad, and his companions, Ezzedin al-Qassam Martyrs, stresses the following:
1. He who made the decision to assassinate Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has made a decision to kill hundreds of Zionists.
2. The Zionists did not take such a step without the approval of the terrorist US administration. Therefore, it should bear responsibility for this crime.
3. The Zionists will soon see, not hear, our response, God willing.
4. The response to the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin will not be made on the level of all the Palestinian people's mujahideen factions only, but all Muslims in the entire Muslim world will have the honor to respond to this crime.
They ask you when will that be, say: Maybe it will be quite soon [Koranic verse].
More articles about the Martyrdom of Shaykh Ahmad Yassin at these links:
http://www.hamasonline.com/
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