I've had people say I was heartless to applaud the death of Yassin, I'm not heartless, the trail of deaths and ruined lives is heartless:

Sheikh Yassin’s Mass-Murder Record

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Moslem Hamas terrorist organization who was killed yesterday in a daring Israeli missile attack, oversaw a total of 425 attacks - including the Park Hotel Seder massacre - that killed 377 Israelis and wounded 2,076.

Among the worst Hamas attacks in the past 3.5 years of the Palestinian Authority-initiated Oslo War were the following ten, which ended the lives of a total of 186 people:

June 1, 2001 - Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed - mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union

Aug. 9, 2001 - Sbarro’s Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family

Dec. 2, 2001 - Haifa bus, 15 killed

March 27, 2002 - Park Hotel in the midst of the Passover Seder, 30 killed, including six husband-and-wife couples

March 31, 2002 - Matza Restaurant in Haifa, 15 killed, including two sets of a father and two children

May 7, 2002 - Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed

June 18, 2002 - #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed

March 5, 2003 - #37 bus in Haifa, 15 killed

June 11, 2003 - #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 killed

Aug. 19, 2003 - #2 bus from Western Wall, 23 killed, including a mother and baby; father and son; and four other children

Children, teeanagers, and whole families killed not as collateral damage but intentionally targeted. I hope he rots in hell. I hope he got to see the gates of paradise, so close yet so far, before dropping straight down.

Yassin was considered "moderate" by the Palestinians though:

The U.N. Security Council, after Arab ambassadors failed to reach agreement with the United States on a statement criticizing Israel, decided to hold an open debate on Tuesday on the killing of the wheelchair-bound Yassin.

Some Palestinians had considered Yassin a relative moderate inside Hamas, but Israel regarded him as the "Palestinian bin Laden."