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  2. Hamas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

    Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".

  3. History of Hamas - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Hamas is a 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.

  5. What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza? - BBC

    www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67039975?0=utm_source=ground.news

    Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.

  6. Israel-Hamas War | Explanation, Summary, Casualties, & Map |...

    www.britannica.com/event/Israel-Hamas-War

    The Israel-Hamas War is the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, especially Hamas, that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel.

  7. What is Hamas? What to know about its origins, leaders and...

    www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-is-hamas-what-to-know-about-its-origins-leaders...

    Hamas is an Islamist militant movement and one of the Palestinian territories’ two major political parties. It governs more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but the group is best...

  8. Israel–Hamas war - Wikipedia

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    An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [aa] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [139] It is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli ...

  9. What is Hamas? Here's what to know : NPR

    www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204826544

    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 Brotherhood ...

  10. Hamas: What has happened to its most prominent leaders? - BBC

    www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67103298

    Many of Hamas's top leaders have been killed since the group's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, dealing it a severe blow. Here's what has happened to Hamas's most prominent figures: Yahya...

  11. Who Is Hamas, The Military Wing in the Gaza Strip ... - The New...

    www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/world/middleeast/hamas-military-gaza-explained.html

    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 and...