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 [65] by the Arabic word ḥamās (حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery". [66]

Oct 17, 2024 · Hamas is an Islamist militant group that spun off from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s. It took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party ...

2 days ago · Hamas is a militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine. The group won an electoral majority in the 2006 legislative elections, but the legislature was dissolved the following year with Hamas left in control of the Gaza Strip.

Oct 7, 2023 · Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.

Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist [1] and Islamic fundamentalist [2] socio-political organization based in the Gaza Strip with an associated paramilitary force, the al-Qassam Brigades. [3][4] Hamas (حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic ...

Oct 10, 2023 · What is Hamas? Hamas is a militant group that carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israel in decades on Saturday, killing 900 people and taking captive dozens of soldiers and...

Oct 11, 2023 · Hamas's deadly attack on Israel is the latest in a long line of bloody conflicts between two deeply divided political rivals. But what is Hamas, why is it in conflict with Israel, and why have its ...

Oct 10, 2023 · Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, and a recognition of the group's roots and early ties to one of the Sunni world's most prominent groups, the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Oct 20, 2023 · Hamas is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. It has called on members of the other two Abrahamic faiths—Judaism and Christianity—to accept Islamic rule in the Middle East.

Jul 1, 2021 · Hamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.