Israel’s government is debating whether to allow the founder of Hamas to return to the Gaza Strip. Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who has been on a tour of Arab states the past three months, is reported to have raised tens of millions of dollars for Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his Inner Cabinet to discuss the issue amid charges that Yassin had used a trip abroad, taken ostensibly to receive medical treatment, to promote terrorist actions against Israel. Yassin was released from an Israeli jail in October as part of a deal to free two Mossad agents detained in Jordan after a failed attempt to assassinate a Hamas political leader.
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