Sheikh Yassin  performed his ablution, read some verses from the Holy Qur'an and supplicated for God to liberate Palestine from the Zionist 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.

The Criminal hand came down to destroy the silence of the dawn prayer. The aircrafts fired three rockets at the paralyzed man. They wanted to put an end to his beliefs. Instead, they rose over the clouds and showered down on those thirsty for water. Despite the thunder or treachery, the good people received the water gladly. Sheikh Yassin's death burned millions of hearts; but it also instilled his beliefs in millions of hearts. Sheikh Yassin’s beliefs live after his death.

The Accident

The founder and the spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed on the break of day (Monday March 22 2004) while being wheeled out after the early morning prayer from a mosque near his house in Al Sabra neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

As soon as his bodyguards put him into his car, a Zionist Apache helicopter fired three missiles at the car he was struck by 3 missiles and died instantly, along with two of his bodyguards and five other bystanders. More than a dozen people were injured in the attack, including two of his sons. For most Muslims, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin represented a symbol of resistance against a evil Zionist occupation.