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Barghouti urges PA to use 'resistance'Article's topics: Marwan Barghouti, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, Hamas "I have always called for creatively combining negotiations with resistance and political, diplomatic and popular activism," Barghouti was quoted by Israel Radio Saturday as... In this article: Marwan Barghouti, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Fatah, Tanzim, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Barack Obama |
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Abbas confirms Palestinian vote to be postponed
...because Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip where some 1.5 million Palestinians live, had warned it would not allow them to vote. Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007. The Islamist group disputes Abbas's legitimacy. "Now for a realistic...
In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, West Bank, Gaza, and BBC Arabic
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Israeli air strikes wound three in Gaza: Hamas
...soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted by Islamist gunmen in a cross-border raid into Israel in 2006. The blockade was tightened after Hamas ousted the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in a brief civil war in...
In this article: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Fatah, and Mahmoud Abbas
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AP Online | 2 days ago
Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli capture
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli...
In this article: Gilad Schalit, Gaza, Israel, E mail, Bernard Kouchner, Lebanon, and Nicolas Sarkozy
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Israel, Hamas wary on talk prisoner swap imminent
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas reacted cautiously on Wednesday to reports a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip might be concluded by the end of this month. Sources on both...
In this article: Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and Eid al-Adha
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Hamas makes U-turn over Palestinian national day
...Fatah in the territory in 2007. Fatah still holds sway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and enjoys U.S. recognition, while Hamas is largely isolated in Gaza over its refusal to accept permanent co-existence with the Jewish state.
In this article: Fatah, Gaza, Yasser Arafat, and West Bank
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Israel general says Hamas curbing Gaza rocket fire
...the situation is quiet." Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, says there is no formal truce. But its officials privately allow that Hamas, and smaller Gazan armed groups, are holding fire to allow efforts to repair the territory's...
In this article: Gaza, Israel, Gabi Ashkenazi, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Beersheba, and Gaza Strip
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Israelis seen backing possible talks with Hamas
...Bank land for a state and compensating Jewish settlers to leave these areas. Western countries have said they would engage Hamas only if it renounced violence, accepted interim peace deals with Israel and recognized its right to exist.
In this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, Shaul Mofaz, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Haaretz, Kadima, and Barack Obama
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Hamas (حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Islamic socio-political organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007, after winning a large majority in the Palestinian Parliament and defeating rival Palestinian party Fatah in a series of violent clashes, described by some journalists, experts and publications as a preemptive response to fears of a 'U.S.-backed coup', Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories. The European Union, the United States, Israel, Canada, and Japan have classified Hamas as a terrorist organization, while the United Kingdom and Australia apply this classification to only the military wing of Hamas.
Hamas was created in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taha of the Palestinian wing of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood at the beginning of the First Intifada, an uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories. Hamas launched numerous suicide bombings against Israelis, the first of them in April, 1993. Hamas ceased the attacks in 2005 and renounced them in April, 2006. Hamas has also been responsible for rocket attacks, improvised explosive device attacks, and shootings, but it reduced those operations in 2005 and 2006.
Through its funding and management of schools, health-care clinics, mosques, youth groups, athletic clubs and day-care centers, Hamas by the mid-1990s had attained a "well-entrenched" presence in the West Bank and Gaza. An estimated 80% to 90% of Hamas revenues fund health, social welfare, religious, cultural, and educational services.
- Local Name:
- حركة المقاومة الاسلامية
- Headquarters:
- Gaza
- Founder:
- Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
- Head:
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- Senior members
- Khaled Mashaal
- Mahmoud Zahar
- Ismail Haniyah
- Not publicly disclosed.
- Ideology:
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- Religious nationalism
- Islamism
- Palestinian nationalism
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