Fatah–Hamas conflict

3 days ago - The Fatah–Hamas conflict (Arabic: النزاع بين فتح وحماس, romanized: an-Nizāʿ bayna Fataḥ wa-Ḥamās) is an ongoing political and strategic conflict between Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian political parties in the Palestinian territories, leading to the Hamas ...

3 weeks ago - In one poll question, respondents were asked to choose the group “most deserving to represent and lead the Palestinian people”: Hamas, Fatah (the party that dominates West Bank politics), or neither. Before the October 7 attacks, Palestinians appeared to be at a stalemate: 27 percent of respondents favored Hamas, whereas Fatah’s support hovered at 24 percent.

First, Hamas long rejected the ... rejection, Fatah carried out a violent crackdown on Hamas in the mid-1990s in the belief that such measures were needed to ensure the viability of the negotiations process....

What began as a political rivalry between Fatah's Yasir Arafat and Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin during the first intifada of 1987 evolved into a full-blown battle on the streets of Gaza between the forces of Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, ...

In a landmark 2006 election, the Palestinians rejected the long-standing political status quo and turned over power to Islamists through the ballot box. It was a stunning upset. Hamas trumped Fatah, the party of Yasser Arafat, which had dominated ...

September 17, 2025 - Tensions between Fatah and Hamas have dominated Palestinian politics since 2006, when Hamas was victorious in the Palestinian Authority’s last parliamentary elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, ending the era of Fatah’s dominance.

July 20, 1998 - Fatah thereafter exerted very little influence in the Gaza Strip, which was largely controlled by Hamas. However, Fatah—as the party leading the Palestinian governing body recognized by the international community—remained central to ...

3 days ago - Hamas fighters took control of the Gaza Strip, while Fatah officials were either taken as prisoners, executed, or expelled. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that at least 161 people were killed and more than 700 were wounded ...

Currently Fatah governs the Occupied West Bank while Hamas governs the Gaza Strip. The two groups have differing ideologies and, in the past, have held divergent views on the recognition of Israel and the two-state solution.

August 4, 2025 - The Fatah–Hamas conflict is an ongoing inter-Palestinian militant conflict between Fatah, based in the West Bank, and Hamas, based in the Gaza Strip. The conflict began after the Second Intifada because Fatah disputed Hamas winning 2006 elections ...

January 12, 2025 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party issued a rare statement on Saturday vowing not to “allow Hamas, which sacrificed the interests of the Palestinian people for Iran and caused destruction in the Gaza Strip, to replicate its actions in the West Bank.”

October 10, 2023 - Initially opposing the Israeli ... two-state solution. Unlike Hamas, Fatah recognizes Israel and wants to build a two-state solution along the borders established after the 1967 Six-Day War....

Since then, the two factions have been at loggerheads, unable to work together effectively. The result has been the establishment of separate authorities in the West Bank (headquartered in Ramallah and controlled by Fatah) and the Gaza Strip (controlled by Hamas).

July 23, 2024 - The UN Secretary-General has welcomed a new agreement signed on Tuesday in Beijing by Hamas and Fatah, together with smaller Palestinian factions, aimed at ending years of political rivalry as the war in Gaza grinds on.

5 days ago - The Hamas legislative victory led to a conflict between Fatah and Hamas, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank through its president.

August 1, 2025 - Tensions between Fatah and Hamas have dominated Palestinian politics since 2006, when Hamas was victorious in the Palestinian Authority’s last parliamentary elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, ending the era of Fatah’s dominance.

Answer (1 of 5): Hamas is the more violent, Fatah is the more corrupt. Both uses “palestinians” for their own purposes. UNRWA and Gaza: When Death Becomes Capital and Refugee Status Eternal The UN agency UNRWA (United Nations Relief and ...

June 17, 2013 - It is six years since the violent split between the main Palestinian political factions, Fatah and Hamas.

In particular, Fatah sought to persuade Hamas to desist from suicide bombings and attacks on civilians in Israel. Palestinian officials reported "not a lot of significant progress."[1] The two factions were scheduled to reconvene in mid-December, but the summit was postponed three times due to the obstinacy of Hamas.

March 17, 2024 - (Wafa) Mustafa accepted the appointment ... dire circumstances that the Palestinian people are going through.” ... Fatah hit back at Hamas late Friday, accusing the Islamist terror movement in a statement of “having caused the ...