PNN – March 22, marks the 22nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Sunday, March 22, marks the 22nd anniversary of the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader and founder of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), a figure who played an important role in the formation of the Palestinian resistance movements. He was martyred at the age of 67 on the direct orders of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Minister of War.
Ahmed Ismail Yassin, known as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was born in 1937 in the village of Al-Jura, in the Al-Majdal district, south of the Gaza Strip. He was only 12 years old when the Nakba occurred in Palestine and was forced to flee to the Gaza Strip with his family. At the age of six, Ahmed Yassin was paralyzed in an accident during sports practice, but this did not stop him from his social and educational activities, and he worked as a teacher of Arabic literature and Islamic education.
The political life of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin pledged allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood after entering high school in 1955. He was arrested several times in 1965 when the Muslim Brotherhood was under heavy attack in Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and finally became the leader of the Brotherhood movement in Palestine in 1968. Sheikh Yassin built the body of this movement and established an Islamic society.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was arrested in 1982 on charges of possessing weapons and forming a military organization against the Zionist regime and sentenced to 13 years in prison, but was released in 1985 as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between the Zionist regime and the Palestine Liberation Movement. Immediately after his release from prison, Sheikh Yassin, along with a group of activists from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, founded a movement called the “Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas.”
The occupying regime raided his home in 1988, interrogated him, and then threatened to deport him to Lebanon. In 1989, as part of efforts to end the Palestinian armed resistance, the Zionist regime arrested the resistance sheikh for the fourth time, along with hundreds of Hamas loyalists, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
In 1991, the Israeli military court sentenced Sheikh Yassin to life imprisonment and 15 years in prison on a list of charges, including encouraging the kidnapping and formation of groups to capture Israeli soldiers, establishing the Hamas movement, and forming security and military apparatuses.
In 1992, the operational teams of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades kidnapped a Zionist soldier and offered to release him in exchange for the release of Sheikh Yassin and a number of detainees in Israeli prisons. However, the regime rejected this offer and raided the place where the Zionist soldier was being held in the village of Birnbala near Jerusalem. During the attack, the Zionist soldier was killed and the commander of the operation was also martyred.
In 1997, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange between Jordan and the Israeli regime, and then traveled to that country for treatment. After a few months, the Sheikh of the Intifada returned to the Gaza Strip and upon his arrival in the Gaza Strip, he announced that Hamas would never make a ceasefire with the Israeli regime until the occupation ended.
In 1982, the Zionist regime arrested Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on charges of forming a military organization and possessing weapons and sentenced him to 13 years in prison, but in 1985, he was released as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between the Zionist regime and the Palestine Liberation Movement.
During the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, the Hamas movement, led by Sheikh Yassin, played a prominent role in arousing the Palestinians’ sense of resistance, especially after the formation of its military wing. The occupying regime could not bear the situation and provoked the countries of the world to list this resistance movement as a terrorist organization and freeze its assets. The European Union also recently, bowing to the dictates of the United States and the Zionists, included its political wing in its blacklist.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority increased pressure on the movement due to political differences with Hamas and sentenced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin to forced residence twice.
After years of struggle and struggle, on March 22, 2004, after returning from morning prayers, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was targeted by three missiles from a helicopter of the regime on the direct order of Ariel Sharon, the then Israeli Minister of War. After years of struggle and defense of the Palestinian people, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa Mosque, he achieved his long-held dream, which was martyrdom in the way of God.