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Hamas was established in 1987, and allegedly has its origins in Egypt 's Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations. Unlike other Palestinian factions, after the Israeli occupation of Gaza in 1967, the ...
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. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War, in 1973. [129]
Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, of which most were civilians. [1] [2]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]
Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war. The Israel–Hamas war began on 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched coordinated armed incursions on Israel from the Gaza Strip. [1] Some developments may become known or understood only in retrospect, so this is not an exhaustive list. Events on the ground for which the precise time is known are in Israel ...
UN OCHA casualties summary, as of 19 June 2024. As of 8 September 2024, over 42,000 people (40,972 Palestinian [1] and 1,478 Israeli [13]) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 116 journalists according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (111 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) [14], 134 journalists and media ...
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 ...
Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip in Palestine since its takeover of the region from rival party Fatah in June 2007. [1][2][3] Hamas' government was led by Ismail Haniyeh from 2007 until February 2017, when Haniyeh was replaced as leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip by Yahya Sinwar. [4] As of November 2023, Yahya Sinwar continues to be the leader ...