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The history of Hamas is an account of the Palestinian nationalist and Islamist [ 1] – described by some as fundamentalist [ 2] – socio-political organization with an associated paramilitary force, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades. [ 3][ 4] Hamas ( حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al ...
t. e. The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas[ j] (an Arabic acronym from Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized : Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah ), [ 59][ k] is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist [ 60] political organisation with a militant wing called the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades.
The chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau (Arabic: رئيس المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس, romanized: r'eys almktb alsyasy lhrkh hmas), also known as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council (Arabic: رئيس مجلس شورى لحركة حماس, romanized: r'eys mjls shwra hrkh hmas) from 1987 until 2004, is the overall and ...
Here, The Independent takes a brief look at the group’s history and aims: What is Hamas? The Hamas movement was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, shortly after ...
Israel's retaliation for the Hamas assault, in which over 1,200 people were killed in Israel and dozens dragged into Gaza as hostages, will likely bring a far greater magnitude of death and ...
Morris recommends this “history that describes the origins of the 1956 Israel-Egypt war, focusing on the Gaza Strip and its majority Palestinian refugee population, anti-Israeli terrorism and ...
Aftermath of a Hamas rocket hit on the maternity ward of Barzilai Medical Center, a hospital in Ashkelon, Israel, on 8 October 2023. Building in the Gaza Strip being destroyed by Israeli missiles. Wounded child and man receive treatment on the floor at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
In 1987–88, during the initial phase of the First Intifada, the 1988 Hamas Charter was written by one older Hamas leader and ratified by Hamas in a slight hurry, as instrument to "maintain the momentum" of the newly risen Palestinian "resistance generation", giving them broad strokes direction, partly expressed in religious Islamic and partly in political terminology; thus the explanation of ...