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Last
Moments In Sheikh Yassin's Life
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Yassin
is now even more closer to the hearts of Muslims and freedom
fighters worldwide (AFP)
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By
Mostafa el-Sawwaf, IOL Correspondent
GAZA
CITY, March 22 (IslamOnline.net) - 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 rains 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.
Tough
now far in distance, he remains close at the hearts of all Muslims,
Arabs and freedom fighters around the world.
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