Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.
Yassin in 2004
Yassin at Israeli military court in 1990
Yassin meeting with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran (1998)
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
The aftermath of the 1994 Dizengoff Street bus bombing in Tel Aviv
Yagur Junction bombing was a suicide attack on the Egged 960 bus in 2002. Hamas was responsible for about 40% of the 135 suicide attacks during the Second Intifada.
Ismail Haniyeh became the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006
Hamas rally in Bethlehem