Abdel aziz al-rantissi biography of alberta
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Rantissi: An uncompromising figure |
Rantissi took over the leadership of the militant Islamic movement Hamas in Gaza after the killing of the group's spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March.
He consistently argued that Palestinians have a right to resist Israel by any and all means, including the suicide bombing of civilians.
Abdel aziz al-rantissi biography of alberta
"They are not terrorism," he said of such attacks.
"They are a response to Israeli terrorism, individual and governmental, against Palestinian civilians," he told the Arabic newspaper Kut al-Arab in 1998.
Rantissi described himself as one of seven founders of Hamas.
Khaled Meshaal - Hamas' politburo chief living in exile - was declared the group's overall leader after Sheikh Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike.
Rantissi had in 2003 survived an earlier assassinati