| A draft resolution condemning the extrajudicial execution of Yassin and six other Palestinians, as well as all terrorist attacks against civilians was brought before the and vetoed by the United States, with United Kingdom, Germany, and abstaining | |
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| Yassin and his bodyguards were killed instantly, along with nine bystanders | About 200,000 people took to the streets of the Gaza Strip for Yassin's funeral as Israeli forces declared a national alert |
The Israeli defended the assassination of Yassin: Yassin was the dominant authority of the leadership, which was directly involved in planning, orchestrating and launching terror attacks carried out by the organization.
| com; accessed 22 March 2015 | However, in July 2003, the truce unravelled after of a Jerusalem bus killed 21 people the previous month |
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| Yassin came to Gaza as a | At a memorial service for Sheik Yassin, he declared that "The Israelis will not know security |
United Kingdom lists the militant wing of Hamas, the , as a terrorist organization--• His date of birth is not known for certain: according to his Palestinian passport, he was born on 1 January 1929, but he claimed to have actually been born in 1937.
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