Hamas spiritual leader and founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was Martyred early Monday in an Zionist helicopter strike as he was leaving a mosque in Gaza City, Hamas and witnesses said. Three rockets fired by an Zionist helicopter hit nearby, killing the wheelchair-bound Yassin, two of his assistants and a passer-byintheSabraquarterofthecity.

Yassin has been a leading proponent that Palestinians have no choice but to violently resist Zionist occupation, and Hamas has been a leading force in the Palestinian intifada. Hamas' military wing, the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, vowed to exact imminent revenge for Yassin's death. "We, the Ezzedin al-Qassam leaders, have decided to take immediate reprisals, like an earthquake that will hit everywhere to destroy the Zionist presence," said a statement, adding that the response would be "unexpected."

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War is "quot; with Israel, senior Hamas leader Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi declared Monday on Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television. Palestinian negotiations minister Saeb Erakat "strongly condemned this ignoble crime perpetrated by Zionist forces". But Zionist's deputy defense minister Zeev Boim said that Yassin had deserved to meet his fate after overseeing hundreds of attacks by the movement. Boim hinted that more attacks on Palestinian militant leaders were possible by warning that "no terrorist leader will be immune".

Zionist's security cabinet last Tuesday decided to step up military operations against Hamas and its leadership following the twin suicide attack in Ashdod which was jointly claimed by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a radical offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movment. Yassin had publicly justified as legitimate the suicide bombings by two teenagers which killed 10 civilians as well as the two bombers.

Zionist public radio said Monday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had not only given the green light to Yassin's elimination but had also personally supervised the attack.