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Person · Founder of Hamas
1936–2004
Born in al-Jura, near al-Majdal, in June 1936, he moved with his family to the Gaza Strip in 1948 and was paralysed after an accident in 1952. A teacher of Arabic and Islamic education, he led the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip from 1968 and founded its Islamic Center in 1973. After the First Intifada broke out in December 1987 he and a group of Islamic activists founded Hamas. Israel imprisoned him from 1989 until 1997, and assassinated him in Gaza on 22 March 2004, firing missiles from a helicopter as he left a mosque.
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Ahmad Ismail Yasin · Shaykh Ahmad Yasin
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.
Founded Hamas with other Islamic activists in Gaza after the uprising broke out
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonAhmad Yasin was born in PlaceAl-Jura
Role: Born here: June 1936, al-Jura
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 June 1936, al-Jura
Evidence version:palquest-ahmad-yasin-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonAhmad Yasin participated in EventThe First Intifada
Role: Founded Hamas with other Islamic activists in Gaza after the uprising broke out
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “After the first Palestinian intifada erupted in December 1987, Yasin and a group of Islamic activists in Gaza created an Islamic organization to struggle against Israeli occupation; they called it Movement of Islamic Resistance”
Evidence version:palquest-ahmad-yasin-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.