Dr. Abdel Aziz Ali Abdulmajid al-Rantissi (Arabic: عبدالعزيز علي عبدالمجيد الحفيظ الرنتيسي, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Māǧid al-Rantīsī); 23 October 1947 – 17 April 2004) was the co-founder of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Rantissi was Hamas's political leader and spokesman in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in March 2004. Like most Hamas ...
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Dr. Abdel Aziz Ali Abdulmajid al-Rantissi (Arabic: عبدالعزيز علي عبدالمجيد الحفيظ الرنتيسي, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Māǧid al-Rantīsī); 23 October 1947 – 17 April 2004) was the co-founder of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Rantissi was Hamas's political leader and spokesman in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in March 2004. Like most Hamas members, Rantissi opposed any compromise with Israel and called for the creation of a state of Palestine (including the whole of the State of Israel) through military exertion against the Jewish state. In addition, Rantissi was the most vocal of Hamas leaders to deny the Holocaust, claiming that the Holocaust never occurred as described by Western historians and that Zionists at one time supported and funded Nazi activities.
He was considered a terrorist by the United States, the European Union, and Israel for organizing suicide bombings of...
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