Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, a paraplegic refugee from the village of Jora (now on Israel’s southern coast), worked quietly to build a grass-root movement with the tacit assent of the Israeli army, which sought to encourage an alternative to the PLO.
El jeque Ahmad Yasin, un refugiado parapléjico del poblado de Jora (ahora en la costa sur de Israel), trabajó sigilosamente para construir un movimiento de base con el consentimiento tácito del ejército israelí, que buscaba alentar una alternativa para la OLP.