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Person · Paediatrician; a founder of Hamas
1947–2004
Born in Yibna in 1947, he was six months old when his family found refuge in the Gaza Strip. A doctor, he headed paediatrics at Nasir Hospital in Khan Yunis and lectured at the Islamic University of Gaza. He was one of the seven leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood who met at Shaykh Ahmad Yasin’s house on 9 December 1987 and decided to create Hamas, and was among the 415 Palestinians Israel deported to south Lebanon in 1992. After earlier attempts on his life, Israel assassinated him on 17 April 2004.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
الانتفاضة الأولى
Ongoing activity · not a separate dated incident
A popular uprising across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, from 9 December 1987 to the signing of the Oslo agreement on 13 September 1993: mass demonstrations, strikes and civil disobedience, led on the ground by a clandestine unified leadership.
Among the seven who decided, on 9 December 1987, to create Hamas, soon a major force in the uprising
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonAbd al-Aziz Rantisi was born in PlaceYibna
Role: Born here: 1947, Yibna
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 1947, Yibna
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-aziz-rantisi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonAbd al-Aziz Rantisi participated in EventThe First Intifada
Role: Among the seven who decided, on 9 December 1987, to create Hamas, soon a major force in the uprising
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Rantisi was one of the seven leaders of the Muslim Brothers who met in the house of Shaykh Ahmad Yasin on 9 December 1987 and decided the creation of the Movement of Islamic Resistance (HAMAS), which soon became a major force in the Palestinian intifada.”
Evidence version:palquest-abd-al-aziz-rantisi-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.