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Hamas was established in 1987, and allegedly has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist and Islamic fundamentalist socio-political organization based in the Gaza Strip with an associated paramilitary force, the al-Qassam Brigades. Hamas (حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al ...
Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist organization, founded during the First Intifada in 1987. While Hamas played a minor role in the Intifada, it successfully used the Intifada to grow and position itself as an alternative to the secular, left-wing Palestinian Liberation Organisation following the end of the Intifada and the start of the Oslo Accords peace process.
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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau رئيس المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس (Arabic) Ra’īs al-Maktab as-Siasi li-Ḥarakat Ḥamās Emblem of Hamas Flag of Hamas Mashal Al-Hayya Jabarin Darwish Unknown Incumbent Temporary committee leadership Acting since 16 October 2024 Type ...
In 1997, political scientists Ilana Kass and Bard O'Neill described Hamas' relationship with the Brigades as reminiscent of Sinn Féin's relationship to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and quoted a senior Hamas official: "The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade is a separate armed military wing, which has its own leaders who do not take ...
Since 2007, the term has been used to refer to Hamas' 2007 victory in Gaza over Fatah in the inter-Palestinian conflict. [7]After Hamas' victory in the Palestinian legislative election of 2006 further heightened Western fears of an emerging Islamic fundamentalist state in the Palestinian territories, and various Israeli politicians, including Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (on January 26 ...
The Gaza war [p] has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [q] in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict, it is the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, [75] and sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis.