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Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement". This acronym, HMS, was glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant [ 98] by the Arabic word ḥamās ( حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery". [ 99]
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. [ 3][ 4] Hamas ( حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [ab] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it has been the deadliest for Palestinians in the entire Israeli–Palestinian conflict, [119] and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War.
In 1967, following the Six-Day War fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan ), Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip which had formerly been occupied by Egypt. [3] A process of Arab-Israeli normalization began in the 1970s, with the fourth and final war between Arab ...
Foreign relations of Hamas. Hamas, the entity who as of 2023 had been the governing authority of the Gaza Strip, has foreign relations that spans various countries around the world. As of 2023, Mousa Abu Marzook is the group's head of international relations office. [ 1]
In 1987–88, during the initial phase of the First Intifada, the 1988 Hamas Charter was written by one older Hamas leader and ratified by Hamas in a slight hurry, as instrument to "maintain the momentum" of the newly risen Palestinian "resistance generation", giving them broad strokes direction, partly expressed in religious Islamic and partly in political terminology; thus the explanation of ...
Origins. Assertions of Israeli support for Hamas date back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period marked by significant political upheaval in the Middle East. Former Israeli officials have openly acknowledged Israel's role in providing funding and assistance to Hamas as a means of undermining secular Palestinian factions such as the ...
The Fatah–Hamas conflict ( Arabic: النزاع بين فتح وحماس, romanized : an-Nizāʿ bayna Fataḥ wa-Ḥamās) is an ongoing political and strategic conflict between Fatah and Hamas, [ a] the two main Palestinian political parties in the Palestinian territories, leading to the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.