Specifically condemned was the participation of the Irgun in the Deir Yassin massacre:

Beginning in 1974, Taha Yassin Ramadan ( himself a Kurd Ba ' athist ), a close associate of Saddam, commanded the People's Army, which was responsible for internal security.

* Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted killing in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force on March 22, 2004.

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin ( 1937 – 22 March 2004 ) ( ) was a founder of Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party.

Yassin, a quadriplegic who was nearly blind, had used a wheelchair since a sporting accident at the age of 12.

Ahmed Yassin was born in al-Jura, a small village near the city of Ashkelon, during the British Mandate of Palestine.

His father, Abdullah Yassin, died when he was three years old.

Although Yassin applied and attended Al-Azhar University in Cairo, he was unable to pursue his studies there due to his deteriorating health.

In 1989, Yassin was arrested by the Israelis and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1997 Yassin was released from Israeli prison as part of an arrangement with Jordan following the failed assassination attempt of Khaled Mashal, which had been conducted by the Israeli Mossad in Jordan.

Yassin was released by Israel in exchange for two Mossad agents who had been arrested by Jordanian authorities, on the condition that he refrain from continuing to call for suicide bombings against Israel.

Yassin, however, was repeatedly placed under house arrest by the Authority.

Yassin was in the building at the time but survived.

Israeli officials later confirmed that Yassin was the target of the attack.

Reem Raiyshi's suicide bombing at the Erez crossing on 14 January 2004, which killed four civilians, was believed by the Israeli military to have been directly ordered by Yassin.

Yassin suggested that the suicide bomber was fulfilling her " obligation " to make jihad, and Israel's Deputy Defence Minister responded by publicly declaring that Yassin was " marked for death.

Yassin was a founder and prominent leader of Hamas, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by a number of national governments.

" The Israeli government repeatedly asserted that Yassin was responsible for a number of terrorist attacks, which targeted and killed a number of civilians.

Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli attack on 22 March 2004.

While he was being wheeled out of an early morning prayer session in Gaza city, an Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship fired Hellfire missiles at Yassin and both of his bodyguards.

* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas ( b. c. 1937 )

* March 22 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas ( b. 1937 )

The AGM-114 has been the munition of choice for airborne targeted killings that have included high-profile figures such as Ahmed Yassin ( Hamas leader ) in 2004 by the Israeli Air Force and ; Anwar al-Awlaki ( American-born Islamic cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader ) in Yemen in 2011,

* A few hours after the spiritual leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, offered to halt all suicide attacks in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an Israeli F-16 jet dropped a bomb into a densely populated residential area of Gaza City.

In 1987, during the First Intifada, Yassin co-founded Hamas with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, originally calling it the " paramilitary wing " of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, and becoming its spiritual leader.

Following his release, Yassin resumed his leadership of Hamas.

Yassin responded to the media that " Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas.

Yassin further promised that Hamas would teach Israel an " unforgettable lesson " as a result of the assassination attempt.

In this capacity, Yassin personally gave his approval for the launching of Qassam rockets against Israeli cities, as well as for the numerous Hamas terrorist bombings and suicide operations.

The successful operation against Yassin constitutes a significant blow to a central pillar of the Hamas terrorist organization, and a major setback to its terrorist infrastructure.

In his statement Yassin declared that Hamas did target Israeli civilians, only in direct retaliation for the death of Palestinian civilians.

Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh suggested, " This is the moment Sheikh Yassin dreamed about ".

The assassination of Yassin also led to the fact that Hamas, for the first time, named as the most popular movement in Palestine by the residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip two weeks after the assassination.

Avraham Poraz, Israel's Interior Minister and member of the centrist Shinui Party, said he believed the assassination of Yassin " was a bad idea because I am afraid of a revenge coming from the Palestinian side, from the Hamas side.

United States Representative to the United Nations John Negroponte stated that the USA was " deeply troubled by this action by the Government of Israel ", while asserting that the U. S. would not support any U. N. Security Council statement condemning Israel's assassination of Yassin that did not include a condemnation of " Hamas terrorist attacks ".

** " IDF strike kills Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin " ( Israeli MFA )

Shinui supported the anti-terrorist policies of Ariel Sharon's government, such as the killing of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin.

* March 22-Canada condemns Israel's assassination of Hamas founder Shaikh Ahmed Yassin.

* March 22: Ahmed Yassin, wheelchair bound leader of Hamas, and six Palestinian bystanders killed by an Israeli missile from a helicopter gunship.

ABC News connected the incident with the Israeli killing of Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas ( e. g. Fatah rivals ), in Gaza and to the death of 12 year-old Muhammad al-Dura three years earlier.