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Palestinian political leader (–)

Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (Arabic: عبد العزيز الرنتيسي&#;; 23 October – 17 April ) was a Palestinian political leader and co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in He also served as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council from March until his assassination in April and the first deputy chairman of the Hamas Shura Council from December until March

Rantisi was born in Yibna, Mandatory Palestine in During the Arab-Israeli War, his family fled or were expelled by Zionist militias to the Gaza Strip.

In , when he was nine, Israeli soldiers killed his uncle in front of him in Khan Younis, which he stated had a lifelong impact on him. He studied pediatric medicine and genetics at Alexandria University in Egypt, graduating first in his class; during that time he became a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In , he returned to Gaza to teach parasitology and genetics at the Islamic University of Gaza.

During the First Inti