Hamas
Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization
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Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist militant organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It has been the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip since its takeover of that area in 2007. During this period it fought several wars with Israel. Israel, the United States and the European Union classify, either in whole or in part, Hamas as a terrorist organization. This classification is one among various and diverse international positions on the nature of Hamas. Russia, China, and Turkey are some countries who view Hamas in a positive light.
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Hamas arrests Palestinians in Gaza for Zoom video chat with IsraelisHamas arrested a Palestinian in Gaza on Thursday, saying that he had taken part in a video conference with Israelis and describing his act as "treason."Reuters - Published | |
Israel seeks immediate resumption of talks on citizens held in GazaIsrael called on Tuesday for the immediate resumption of talks on the return of four Israelis held for years in the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers said they might be willing..Reuters - Published | |
Israeli soldiers duped by Hamas 'fake women' phone ruseHamas militants hacked dozens of smartphones by posing as female admirers, Israel's military says.BBC News - Published | |
Hamas' Meshaal says Palestinians working to foil Trump planPalestinians around the world are uniting to thwart U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said, criticizing Arab governments who supported the plan.Reuters - Published | |
Hamas says it will confront Trump's 'aggressive' Middle East planPalestinian condemnation of the U.S. Middle East peace plan came swiftly on Tuesday night, with thousands protesting in Gaza and the militant Islamist group Hamas saying it would confront President..Reuters - Published | |
Trump's Mideast plan comments 'aggressive,' Jerusalem proposal 'nonsense': HamasU.S. President Donald Trump's statements on his Mideast plan are "aggressive" and his proposals for Jerusalem are "nonsense", an official with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Tuesday.Reuters - Published | |
Israel carries out Gaza air strikes after Palestinian rocket fireFour rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclave's ruling Hamas militant..Reuters - Published | |
Palestinians to scale back protests on Israel-Gaza borderPalestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel, factions in the strip said on Thursday, in a sign of a lasting detente between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers..Reuters - Published | |
Qatar says its Gaza aid to continue through March 2020 at leastQatar will continue providing humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip into next year, the gas-rich Gulf state's envoy to the Palestinian enclave said on Wednesday, a pledge that may help stave off conflict..Reuters - Published | |
Why Hamas chose restraint in Israel-Gaza clashUnusually, Gaza's rulers stayed out of the recent fighting, but the next time might be different.BBC News - Published | |
New U.S. sanctions target Hamas, Islamic State, other groupsThe United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on a "wide range of terrorists and their supporters," including the Palestinian group Hamas and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on the eve of..Reuters - Published | |
Hamas says Gaza blasts that killed three policemen were suicide bombingsHamas said on Wednesday that explosions that killed three police officers in Gaza on Tuesday were carried out by two suicide bombers and that an investigation was underway to discover who sent them.Reuters - Published | |
Explosions hit Gaza police checkpoints, three dead: officialsExplosions hit two police checkpoints in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing three officers and wounding several other Palestinians, the Hamas-run interior ministry said, declaring a state of emergency..Reuters - Published | Qatari envoy says Israel, Hamas committed to truce despite violenceIsrael and the Islamist group Hamas have no desire to go to war despite an uptick in violence, the Qatari envoy who helped mediate a truce between the sides along the volatile Gaza border, said on..Reuters - Published |
Facebook defeats appeal in U.S. claiming it aided Hamas attacks in IsraelFacebook Inc on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its..Reuters - Published | Israeli troops mistakenly kill Hamas man in Gaza: militaryIsraeli soldiers mistakenly shot an operative of Islamist group Hamas on Thursday who had been trying to stop Palestinians approaching the Israel-Gaza border, the Israeli military said.Reuters - Published |
Hamas says Israeli troops kill fighter on Gaza borderIsrael's military said soldiers opened fire on Thursday after spotting two Palestinian gunmen near the Gaza border fence, and the Hamas militant group said one of its fighters was killed.Reuters - Published | Hamas chief details terms for calm with IsraelHamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday that two industrial zones, a new power line and a hospital would be built for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as part of truce understandings between his..Reuters - Published |
Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza, calling attack response to rocket fireIsraeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in Gaza on Thursday after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last..Reuters - Published | |
