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Hamas
Palestinian political and military organization
For other uses, see Hamas (disambiguation).
"Islamic Resistance Movement" redirects here. For other uses, see Islamic Resistance (disambiguation).
For their military wing, often also referred to as just "Hamas" in Israeli sources, see Al-Qassam Brigades.
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The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas[c] (the Arabic acronym from Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah),[23][d] is a Palestinian nationalistSunniIslamist[24] political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupiedGaza Strip since 2007.[26]
The Hamas movement was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.[27] In the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas secured a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council by campaigning on promises of a corruption-free government and advocating for resistance as a m
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Second Intifada
2000–2005 Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation
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The Second Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الثانية, romanized: al-Intifāḍa aṯ-Ṯāniya, lit. 'The Second Uprising'; Hebrew: האינתיפאדה השנייה, romanized: ha-Intifada ha-Shniya), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000. The period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel continued until the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005, which ended hostilities.[12][13]
The general triggers for the unrest are speculated to have been centered on the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit, which was expected to reach a final agreement on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process in July 2000. An uptick in violent incidents started in September 2000, after Israeli politician Ariel Sharon made a provocative visit to the Temple Mount; the visit itself was peaceful, but, as anticipated, sparked protests and riots that Israeli police put down with rubber bullets, live ammunition, and tear gas. Within the first few days of the uprising, the IDF had fired one million rounds of ammuni
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Hamas - LAST REVIEWED: 14 Apr 2011
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- LAST MODIFIED: 14 Apr 2011
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0031
Bin Jusuf, Ahmed. Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya Hamas, Khalifiyyat al-Nash’a wa-Aafaq al-Masir. Benefit, IL: al-Markaz al-‘Aalami lil-Buhuth wal-Dirasat, 1989.
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Chehab, Zaki. Inside Hamas: Representation Untold Tale of depiction Militant Islamic Movement. Newfound York: Humanity Books, 2007.
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Council connotation Foreign Relations.Backgrounder: Hamas. 2009.
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Hroub, Khaled. Hamas: Political Simplicity and Practice. Washington, DC: Institute rent Palestine Studies, 2000.
Excellent guide say nice things about Hamas’s origination and evolving political principles, strategies, enjoin objecti