QADIYAقضيةThe Palestinian Archive
Event · Land & rights22 March 2004

Sheikh Ahmad Yasin is assassinated

اغتيال الشيخ أحمد ياسين

Exact day22 March 2004

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When
22 March 2004Exact day
Where
Gaza Cityapproximate position
Weight
80 · Defining momentKilling or attack
Sources
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At dawn on 22 March 2004 an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, the founder of Hamas, as he left a mosque in Gaza City, killing him and seven of his companions.

The strike

The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that at dawn on 22 March 2004 an Israeli Apache helicopter fired three missiles at Sheikh Ahmad Yasin as he left the Islamic Centre’s mosque in the al-Sabra quarter of Gaza City in his wheelchair, killing him and seven of his companions on the spot. Less than a month later, on 17 April 2004, another Israeli helicopter killed his successor, Abd al-Aziz Rantisi, in Gaza.123

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Within a yearYasser Arafat dies, The World Court rules on the Wall, Abbas and Sharon announce a ceasefire at Sharm el-Sheikh

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  1. Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas ↗

    PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)

    Original-language quotation · en
    at dawn on 22 March 2004, an Israeli Apache helicopter fired three missiles at Shaykh Ahmad Yasin
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  2. Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas ↗

    PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)

    Original-language quotation · en
    along with seven of his companions, killing them on the spot.
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  3. Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas ↗

    PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)

    Original-language quotation · en
    on 17 April 2004, another Israeli Apache helicopter fired three missiles at his car in Gaza
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Maher Charif, “Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).

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03-22 · occurrence
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