Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was martyred at dawn on March 22, 2004 after an Israeli Apache helicopter fired 3 missiles at him. Hamas indicated in its statement that the assassination of the founding sheikh was a new birth in the path of the movement and the resistance.
It called for the continuation of all forms of steadfastness, steadfastness and defense of the land, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa Mosque, until “our rights are taken away, our land and holy sites are liberated, and the occupation is defeated and eliminated”