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The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas [c] (the Arabic acronym from Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), [23] [d] is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist [24] political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades.
We support the oppressed everywhere – Shiite Hezbollah as well as Sunni Hamas. These are what [Khamenei] has declared in the past. These are what [Khamenei] has declared in the past. I traveled to the region as the production manager of those rockets, and I supplied them both to Hezbollah and the Palestinians.
Iran has built closer ties with the group in recent years; unlike all of Tehran’s other allies in the region, Hamas is a Sunni Muslim organization, rather than a Shiite one.
[72] [73] The Sunni Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has also at times been considered part of the axis due to its opposition to Israel and the United States. As of March 2012, the group has since pulled its headquarters out of Damascus and thrown its support behind the anti-Assad Syrian opposition .
The shock Hamas incursion into Israel was of a scale and sophistication that was previously considered unthinkable. Was Iran involved? Hamas and Iran are longtime allies.
The fact is that Hamas is a Taliban state, as one Israeli diplomat put it. This is almost an epiphany, a clarifying truth. Hamas operates against its Palestinian enemies like the Taliban does against its Afghani enemies. Imagine a Hamas squad enters a kindergarten in a kibbutz. Neither the Taliban nor Hamas strive for earthly aims.
Almost 90% of Pakistan's Muslim population is Sunni, with 10% being Shia, but this Shia minority forms the second largest Shia population of any country, [228] larger than the Shia majority in Iraq. Until recently Shia–Sunni relations have been cordial, and a majority of people of both sects participated in the creation the state of Pakistan ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ismail Haniyeh إسماعيل هنية Haniyeh in 2020 3rd Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau In office 6 May 2017 – 31 July 2024 Deputy Saleh al-Arouri Preceded by Khaled Mashal Succeeded by Khaled Mashal (acting) Yahya Sinwar Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau In office 4 April ...