Nizar Rayan
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title:
Nizar Rayan
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Nizar Rayan was a high-ranking Hamas leader who served as a liaison between the Palestinian organization's political leadership and its military wing. Also a professor of Islamic law, he became a top Islamic cleric within Hamas after the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 2004. Rayan was a strong promoter between 1994 and 2004 of suicide bombings on Israel, and his son killed himself on one such mission. Rayan and most of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike during the Gaza War.
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Palestinian political and religious leader (1959–2009)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Rayan
date created:
2009-01-01T14:19:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:19:41Z
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