What the records say
- When
- 22 Mar 2004
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 10
- Coordinates
- 31.50° N, 34.46° E
- Description
- 2004 assassination of a Palestinian leader
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Killing of Ahmed Yassin
2004 assassination of Hamas co-founder
On 22 March 2004, the Palestinian leader and one of the founders of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, aged 67, was assassinated in Gaza City. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin – who used a wheelchair due to being quadriplegic since his adolescence – was returning from performing the Fajr prayer, and his companions were also killed immediately.
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