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  1. 2 days ago · Hamas, militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine. The group won an electoral majority in the 2006 legislative elections, but the legislature was dissolved the following year with Hamas left in control of the Gaza Strip.

  2. 1 day ago · Israel-Hamas War, war between Israel and Palestinian militants, especially Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a land, sea, and air assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The October 7 attack resulted in more than 1,200 deaths, primarily Israeli citizens, making it the deadliest day ...

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  3. 21 hours ago · As European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, he condemned the "barbaric and terrorist attack" by Hamas on Israel which started the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. On 10 October 2023, Borrell accused Israel of breaking international law by imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip. [110]

  4. 4 days ago · After seven months of war in Gaza, the Israel-Hamas conflict has caused untold devastation to the more than two million Gazans that Hamas claims to represent and has all but destroyed Hamass governance project in the strip. It is worth asking two basic questions: What are Hamass goals?

  5. 1 day ago · Gaza Strip, territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. It is densely populated and impoverished, in part due to the ongoing political situation of the region. It became a center of tension in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when Hamas seized control of the area in 2007.

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  6. 4 days ago · In early October 2023, Hamas fighters fired rockets into Israel and stormed southern Israeli cities and towns across the border of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,300 Israelis, injuring 3,300 ...

  7. 5 days ago · Palestinians are fleeing parts of Rafah ahead of an anticipated Israeli operation in the southern Gazan city that may weaken Hamas' brigades, but not necessarily its leadership, according to one ...

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