17 April 2004
☠Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi assassinated
AttackerIsrael / IDF➜TargetHamas / Islamic Jihad
On 17 April 2004 Israel assassinated Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's successor at the head of Hamas in Gaza, with helicopter missiles less than a month after Yassin's assassination.