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Hamas, [d] 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'), [52] is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist [53] political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
4 days ago · Factionalism among the Palestinians flared up when Hamas won the Palestinian Authority’s parliamentary elections in 2006, deposing longtime majority party Fatah. This gave Hamas, a political and ...
Oct 11, 2023 · Palestinian Authority (PA) The PA was founded in July 1994 by the Oslo Accords as an interim body to govern parts of Gaza and the West Bank (except East Jerusalem) till an agreed solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The PA “functions as an agency of the PLO, which represents Palestinians at international bodies.
Palestine ( Arabic: فلسطين, romanized : Filasṭīn [e] ), officially the State of Palestine ( دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn ), [f] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia. It encompasses two disconnected territories — the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Palestinian territories ...
Feb 27, 2024 · A power struggle between Abbas’ secular Fatah party and Hamas boiled over in the summer of 2007, with Hamas seizing power in Gaza after a week of street battles. That in effect confined Abbas ...
Oct 10, 2023 · Part of Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine. An unprecedented surprise attack in southern Israel by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, has ...
1 day ago · In 2005, in the wake of the collapse of the peace process, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the settlements it had constructed in the Gaza Strip after 1967, and in 2007, after factional conflict within the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas emerged as the de facto ruler in the Gaza Strip.
