Hamas has 3 co-founders
#1 Ibrahim Yazuri
Born in 1941 in Beit Dras, near Ashdod. On 21 May 1948, Israeli forces entered his village & indiscriminately slaughtered many women & children trying to flee the violence.
Yazuri survived.
source: Jawad, "Zionist Massacres," p.113
Yazuri's family fled to Khan Yunis.
On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli tanks entered Khan Yunis to "eradicate" Palestinian militant resistance.
[Recall, Palestinians picked up arms after Israel slaughtered 1000s of unarmed refugees returning home in 1949-1950. Morris, Border Wars, p.416]:
So, on 3 November 1956, when Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis, they rounded up all men 15+, lined them against a wall & executed them.
Yazuri was 15 years old at the time. He survived the massacre.
This is one account of what Yazuri witnessed:
source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 271
#2 Abdulaziz Rantissi.
Born in October 1947, in Yibna, near Jaffa. Israeli forces attacked Yiba in June 1948. His family fled to Khan Yunis.
Rantissi was 9 years old at the time of the Khan Yunis massacre cited above. His uncle was one of the victims.
#3 Ahmed Yassin
Born in al-Jura in 1936. When he was 13, he was expelled from his home in al-Jura, near Ashkelon.
His family settled in al-Shati (the beach refugee camp) in Gaza. These were the conditions in the camp:
Source: source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 79
Then, during the same 1956 operation in which Israeli forces slaughtered hundreds of men in Khan Yunis, they also executed people in the beach refugee camp, where Yassin lived.
source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 100
Violence breeds violence. In the past month, 1.7M Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly uprooted. Many r dehydrating in real time. ICU patients are dying in real time b/c no electricity. Babies born pre-maturely are dying in real time. 11,000+ Palestinians have been slaughtered
If history teaches us anything, it's Israel is in the process of destroying itself, ensuring it will have more enemies in the future than it ever had in the past. Israel, for your own sake, stop the killing. stop the genocide. stop this total madness and insanity.
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