Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 8, 2012
Hamas leader Khaled Mashal vowed not to concede any land to Israel before a huge gathering of Gazans, rallying to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas. The speech not only marked Mashal's return from exile, but was also his firs...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 29, 2012
Thousands of Palestinians have held celebrations in the West Bank and elsewhere, hours before a vote at the UN General Assembly that is widely expected to give Palestine upgraded membership status at the world body. The demonstrations have largely...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 25, 2012
Following Israel's ceasefire agreement with Hamas, fishermen from the Gaza Strip are allowed to sail twice as far out to sea. The relaxed restrictions are a welcome change in a territory that is heavily dependent on outside aid, but there are stil...
Euronews
| Nov 24, 2012
Tens of thousands of children have returned to school in the Gaza Strip as the ceasefire holds between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Will students be able to adjust after eight days of cross-border fighting that killed nearly 30...
Russia Today
| Nov 23, 2012
In what Hamas is calling the first violation of the truce, a Palestinian man was killed and at least ten others, mostly teenagers, were injured after Israeli troops opened fire on a group in the "buffer zone" along the border in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 22, 2012
As the people of Gaza start to rebuild, Al Jazeera takes a look at one of the conflict's final victims. Nader Abumaghasib, 15, was killed by an Israeli drone just 40 minutes before the ceasefire began. His father says he will raise his other six s...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 21, 2012
The people of Gaza are picking up the pieces after eight days of Israeli bombardment. The fragile Israel-Hamas truce held overnight but there is no doubt it is a fragile one, and making sure all sides stick to the agreement will be one of the toug...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 21, 2012
On the streets of Israel, reaction to the Gaza ceasefire is mixed but largely negative, Al Jazeera finds. Many feel that their government was forced into the deal and doubt the truce will hold, though some expressed relief that Israeli soldiers wi...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 21, 2012
A ceasefire is agreed in Gaza between Israel and Hamas -- but it is announced in Egypt with US help. Will it hold? Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Gaza on a day when peace seemed almost impossible to achieve, but somehow ended with a...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 21, 2012
Hamas has urged people to stay indoors but in Gaza City, some people took to the streets celebrating the ceasefire, blasting car horns and setting off fireworks from roof tops.
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— Dec 9, 2012 at 08:51 pm
...to the rockets Hamas fired at the city during last month’s Operation Pillar of Defense, and then beseeched: “Do it again, hit Haifa next time!” ...
— Apr 3 at 03:15 pm
...from the West Bank's Fatah party who hanged an effigy of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani on Tuesday. You can show your deli...
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Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, located in the Palestinian territories.
Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections and then defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes. Israel, the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Japan classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, while Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Arab nations do not.
Based on the principles of Islamic fundamentalism gaining momentum throughout the Arab world in the 1980s, Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin stated in 1987, and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988, that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. However, in July 2009, Khaled Meshal, Hamas's political bureau chief, said the organization was willing to cooperate with "a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict which included a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders", provided that Palestinian refugees hold the right to return to Israel and that East Jerusalem be the new nation's capital.
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