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What Is Hamas? | Council on Foreign Relations

The Palestinian militant group struggled to govern the Gaza Strip before launching a surprise attack on Israel in 2023. Now facing Israel's military ...

Hamas - foreign terrorist organization - DNI.gov

HAMAS–the acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (Islamic Resistance Movement)—is the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian ...

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

Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1200 people and taking over 250 hostages.

What is Hamas? - Unpacked for Educators

Hamas - this terrorist group was behind a wave of devastating suicide bombings and other activities in the 1990s and 2000s.

terrorist group Hamas - National Counterterrorism Center | Groups

HAMAS has a military wing known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades that has conducted many anti-Israel attacks in both Israel and the Palestinian territories ...

Hamas: Background, Current Status, and U.S. Policy - CRS Reports

support is in the Gaza Strip, which it has controlled since. 2007. It also operates in the West Bank and Lebanon, and some Hamas leaders and ...

Hamas | Definition, History, Ideology, & Facts | Britannica

Hamas is a militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine.

Doctrine of Hamas | Wilson Center

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which ...

What Is Hamas? - Israel Policy Forum

Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist political party and militant group, an Islamist organization, the de facto government of the Gaza Strip, and a terror ...

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

The Palestinian militant group has struggled to govern Gaza and remains committed to violently resisting Israel. Its surprise attack against ...

Hamas 101 - World Jewish Congress

Hamas is a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim terrorist organization founded in Gaza in 1987 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

What You Need to Know About the Iran-backed Terror Group Hamas ...

On Saturday, October 7, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group controlling Gaza, launched an unprovoked and vicious surprise attack on Israel.

What Is Hamas? History, Goals, Role in Israel-Gaza War Explained

With an attack on Israel of unprecedented scope on Oct. 7, the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas provoked a major new war. Hamas, which is ...

What is Hamas? Here's what to know - NPR

The group, founded in 1987, has vowed to annihilate Israel. Before this past weekend's attack, it was responsible for many suicide bombings ...

What is Hamas? The group that rules the Gaza Strip has ... - AP News

The Palestinian Authority, dominated by rival Fatah movement, administers semi-autonomous areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel ...

Israel-Hamas War FAQs Fact Sheet

Aren't Jewish Israelis colonizers, and isn't violence against them justified in the name of decolonization? No. Calling Jews living in their own homeland “ ...

The Hamas Covenant - Israeli Missions Around The World

The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement was issued on August 18, 1988. The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as the HAMAS, is an extremist ...

What is Hamas? A simple guide to the armed Palestinian group

The group's audacious Saturday attack on Israel has triggered a bloody bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip.

What is the Palestinian group Hamas? - Reuters

It triggered an Israel-Hamas war that has seen the heaviest Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 75 years of conflict. More than 25,000 Palestinians ...

Israel Gaza war: History of the conflict explained - BBC

The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on Israel on 7 October, with hundreds of gunmen infiltrating communities near the Gaza ...