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Hamas Founder Remembered in New Museum

GAZA CITY (AP).- The Hamas militant group has turned the modest home of its founder into a museum — seven years after the wheelchair-bound Palestinian cleric was killed in an Israeli airstrike as he was wheeled out of a mosque. The Sheik Ahmed Yassin museum, located in an alleyway in the rundown Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, has become a popular destination since it opened last month. Dozens of schoolchildren and well-wishers visit each day. Yassin, who was paralyzed in a childhood accident, was hit by a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter on March 22, 2004. The assassination came at a time of heavy Israeli-Palestinian fighting, and Israel described Yassin as a “mastermind of Palestinian terror.” “The sheik was the leader of the resistance movement in Palestine,” said his son, Abdel Hamid Yassin, who was wounded with his father in the airstrike. “This house was the house of the nation.” Yassin,