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CBC News Online | March 23, 2004
Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a trained pediatrician, is the new leader of the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas. He replaces Sheik Ahmed Yassin, assassinated on March 22, 2004, in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.
Rantisi is one of the most high-profile public faces of Hamas. After a secret vote a day after Yassin's death, Rantisi said he had been elected both overall chief of Hamas and head of the political wing.
Considered a hardliner, he opposes ending attacks on Israelis and rejects compromise with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
He is married with two sons and four daughters.
1947: Born in Yubna, near Tel Aviv. A year later, his family moved to the Gaza Strip. He has nine brothers and two sisters.
1972: Graduated from faculty of medicine at Egypt's Alexandria University. He returned in 1974 to obtain a master's degree in pediatrics. While there, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that Hamas grew from.
1976: Chief pediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis; member of faculty of science at the Islamic University of Gaza.
1987: Became high-profile member of Palestinian intefadah, along with Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
1992: Expelled to Lebanon with 416 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members. Returned in 1993 as spokesperson for the group of detainees. He has been detained periodically through the 1990s by the Palestinian Authority for criticizing Arafat.
1997: Worked closely with Yassin after he was released from an Israeli prison in 1997.
Jun. 6, 2003: Broke off ceasefire talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Jun. 10, 2003: Survived Israeli missile attack.
Mar. 23, 2004: Named new leader of Hamas.
CBC News Online | March 23, 2004
Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a trained pediatrician, is the new leader of the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas. He replaces Sheik Ahmed Yassin, assassinated on March 22, 2004, in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.
Rantisi is one of the most high-profile public faces of Hamas. After a secret vote a day after Yassin's death, Rantisi said he had been elected both overall chief of Hamas and head of the political wing.
Considered a hardliner, he opposes ending attacks on Israelis and rejects compromise with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
He is married with two sons and four daughters.
1947: Born in Yubna, near Tel Aviv. A year later, his family moved to the Gaza Strip. He has nine brothers and two sisters.
1972: Graduated from faculty of medicine at Egypt's Alexandria University. He returned in 1974 to obtain a master's degree in pediatrics. While there, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that Hamas grew from.
1976: Chief pediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis; member of faculty of science at the Islamic University of Gaza.
1987: Became high-profile member of Palestinian intefadah, along with Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
1992: Expelled to Lebanon with 416 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members. Returned in 1993 as spokesperson for the group of detainees. He has been detained periodically through the 1990s by the Palestinian Authority for criticizing Arafat.
1997: Worked closely with Yassin after he was released from an Israeli prison in 1997.
Jun. 6, 2003: Broke off ceasefire talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Jun. 10, 2003: Survived Israeli missile attack.
Mar. 23, 2004: Named new leader of Hamas.
