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Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance Movement'), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
Oct 7, 2023 · Hamas became the sole ruler of Gaza after violently ejecting political rivals in 2007. It has an armed wing and was thought to have about 30,000 fighters before the start of the war.
Apr 18, 2024 · Hamas is an Islamist militant group that spun off from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s. It took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political...
Oct 10, 2023 · Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, and a recognition of the group's roots and early ties to one of the Sunni world's most prominent groups, the Muslim...
Oct 8, 2023 · Hamas, an armed Palestinian group, launched one of the largest assaults on Israel in decades on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, taking more than 220 hostages...
Oct 9, 2023 · The brazen attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel that began on Saturday will be seen as a turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with far-reaching repercussions,...
Oct 7, 2023 · Hamas, or in some cases its armed wing alone, is considered a terrorist group by Israel, the US, the EU, and the UK, among others. Iran backs Hamas with funding, weapons and training. Who are...
Oct 11, 2023 · By Joe Macaron. 11 Oct 2023. On October 7, Hamas launched a massive military operation into Israeli territory. The shooting of thousands of rockets into Israel was followed by an attack by...
Jul 1, 2021 · Ismail Haniyeh (L), seen here with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the overall leader of Hamas. When Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006,...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged top Israeli officials to accept a plan for postwar Gaza as he pushed for more international pressure on Hamas to agree to a cease-fire proposal newly endorsed by the U.N.
