Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas. He was born in the village of Al-Jura, which was close to what was then known as Al-Majdal (now Ashkelon). Following the Nakba of 1948, he fled with his family to Gaza, where they settled in the Al-Shati Camp.


Due to a sporting accident at 12, he sustained a severe spinal injury and was a quadriplegic for the rest of his life. Due to poor health he could not attend university in Cairo and became an Arabic teacher in an elementary school in Gaza.


He was active in setting up the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood before splitting in 1987 to form Hamas. In 1989 he was arrested by Israel and sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the killings of alleged Palestinian collaborators. In 1997, Israeli Mossad agents attempted to assassinate another Hamas leader, Khalid Mashal, in Jordan but failed and were arrested. King Hussein of Jordan arranged Yassin's prison release in exchange for the two Mossad Agents. By this time, his health had deteriorated further.


Upon his release In 1997, Yassin proposed a halt of attacks on Israel if Israel withdrew from the West Bank and Gaza. However, Israel rejected this offer.


Once back in Gaza, Yassin took up direct leadership. He always used the same route to pray in the mosque and did not attempt to hide his location, even after failed assassination attempts. Yassin was killed in an Israeli attack on 22 March 2004. While he was being wheeled out of the early morning prayer session in Gaza city.


In 2001, British journalist Sean Langan visited Gaza to make a documentary for his award-winning series
'Langan Behind The Lines. He was granted the opportunity to interview Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at his home.


In this clip, Yassin responds to the question - 'Is it a holy war, a war of liberation or both?'

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"We will not be finished as a people.
On the contrary. We were. We are. We shall always be."


Asaad Abdulqader, known by the nom de guerre Salah Ta'amari, was one of the founding members of Fatah. Born in Bethlehem, his entire family fled to Jordan atter Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967.


In 1970, he fought in the Black September conflict, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, against King Hussein's forces.

After being exiled to Lebanon, he became the head of the Fatah youth organization there. Prior to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, he hosted the famous author John Le Carre at his command post in Sidon, South Lebanon. John Le Carre was writing 'The Little Drummer Girl', and in the forward to the novel, he wrote a short dedication to Salah:


"My host in Sidon, the Palestinian military commander Salah Ta'amari, deserves a book to himself...let this book record his courage, and my thanks to him and his assistants for having shown me the Palestinian heart."


Between 1978 and 1982, he led several PLO units in Sidon, South Lebanon, during Israel's invasions. He was later captured and imprisoned in Israel's Ansar prison in southern Lebanon in 1982. While in prison, he became a leader and led the prisoners in a revolt, demanding better conditions, which resulted in the burning down of the camp. In 1983, his wife Dina negotiated one of the largest prisoner exchanges in history, which led to the release of her husband and 8,000 other prisoners.


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⭕Destruction in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza as a result of the occupation’s aggression.

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Gideon Levy is a well-known Israeli leftist journalist and author who writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz. His writing often focuses on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and he has received numerous awards for his articles on human rights issues in those territories.


During his talk titled "The Israeli Lobby:

Is it Good for the US, Is it Good for Israel?" on April 10, 2015, he emphasized the three main factors that enable Israelis to justify and accept their dominance over the Palestinians.


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Israeli Channel 14:

Israel sent messages to Iran through several countries that if Iran responds directly and sites in Israel are bombed, Israel will respond by attacking sensitive sites in Iran.

Israel, is able to reach any point in Iran. Iran's size does not allow for hermetic defense like in Israel and its defense systems are much less than Israel's.

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(Hermetic defense meaning Iran is larger and has more territory to protect, therefore their airspace is easier to penetrate)

The Saudi news site "Ilaf" reported from a Western security source that "Israel is currently conducting secret training in the Air Force with various fighter jets and UAVs, while conducting maneuvers and practicing attacks on sensitive sites inside Iran that may be nuclear sites."

The report has no confirmation from another source.

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🔽In the midst of war and destruction...women make Eid cakes in Rafah.

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The Iranian boiling frog strategy.

https://t.me/warfareanalysis/28708

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⭕Medical teams are still continuing their work searching for missing people under the rubble at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza

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🚨A girl was brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah last night after being critically injured in an Israeli airstrike.

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🚨Medical teams recovered 381 bodies of martyrs in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza since the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

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⭕Occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah

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The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation:

The families of the kidnapped people demanded that Smotrich and Ben Gvir not be allowed to force Netanyahu to torpedo the deal.

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