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When
he woke up, as usual, one hour before the dawn prayers, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin had
no idea this was the day he long dreamed of and yearned for He
performed his ablution, read some verses from the Holy Qur’an and supplicated
for God to liberate Palestine from the Israeli occupation The
wheelchair-bound spiritual leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas was
then helped by two associates to Mujamah Al-Islami mosque, only 200 meters from
his home There
he waited until the dawn Adhan [call for prayer] was raised (around 03:00 GMT) After
prayers, worshippers flock to greet him and inquire after his health, as if they
were giving him a farewell As his associates helped him out of the mosque with and only 40 meters away from the door, an Israeli U.S.-made Apache fired three missiles, one of them hit Sheik Yassin directly winning him his long-awaited martyrdom Wailing their sirens, ambulances raced to the scene while dumbfounded Palestinians gathered the remains of the nine victims, including the dashed out brains of Sheikh Yassin Two of the aging leader’s sons, Abdul Hadi and Abdul Hamid, survived the Israeli strike with serious wounds With the martyrdom of Sheikh Yassin, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is expected to take a new course with Palestinian factions vowing to break the gates of hell loose For them, the 66-year-old veteran resistance leader is symbol who left his indelible marks on the history of the Palestinian cause against the Israeli occupation Yassin was 12 year old when Israeli gangs stormed his village in the southern Gaza Strip village of Al-Joura in 1948 and forced scores of Palestinians to flee their homes Despite a childhood injury that left him for ever paralyzed, Sheikh Yassin devoted his entire life to the cause of his usurped country Though now far in distance, he remains close at the hearts of all Muslims, Arabs and freedom fighters around the world Source: Islamonline.net |
