Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

HAMAS is the largest and most capable militant group and largest political party in the Palestinian territories. HAMAS is committed to the armed resistance against Israel and to the creation of a Palestinian state. The most recent armed engagement between HAMAS and Israel began on 7 October ...

2 days ago - The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades.

Hamas (or the Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist military and sociopolitical movement, and a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Hamas's primary base of action and support is in the Gaza Strip, which ...

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas (a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO), which led an attack that day from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

They fired indiscriminate rockets from or near civilian areas in Gaza and located their fighters in civilian areas, including shelters for displaced people, endangering Palestinian civilians. Hamas’s leaders continued to justify violence against civilians inside Israel.

HAMAS formed in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada (uprising). Its roots are in the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is supported by a robust sociopolitical structure inside the Palestinian territories. The group’s charter calls for establishing ...

July 20, 1998 - 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 ...

Hamas was founded—in the early days of the first Intifada uprising—amid growing Palestinian fury over the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The Hamas Covenant was largely crafted by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic and partially blind cleric who was the founder and spiritual leader of the militant militia in Gaza.

MFA letter to John Minto, National Chair - Palestinian Solidarity Network [PDF, 685 KB] OIA 29038: New Zealand’s response to South Africa v Israel - ICJ case ... The situation in Israel and Gaza is deeply distressing. New Zealand has been consistent in its messaging that this crisis must end. New Zealand has condemned, unequivocally, the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on 7 October 2023 in southern Israel.

October 14, 2025 - It has, however, signalled its willingness to accept an interim Palestinian state in just the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, without renouncing its claim to all of historic Palestine. Before the 7 October attacks, Hamas was estimated to have about 30,000 fighters, but Israel said in August 2024 that its forces had killed more than 17,000 of them.

1 week ago - Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel’s claim to have killed one of its members.

... Hamas has ruled Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there since 2006. Hamas Contained, first published in 2018, offers a history of the group, drawing on interviews with organization leaders and their publications.

Hamas (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, Islamic Resistance Movement) is a prominent Palestinian militant Islamist group with roots in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.

Hamas is a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim terrorist organization founded in Gaza in 1987 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The name “Hamas” is an acronym for “Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya”, which is translated into English as “Islamic ...

2 weeks ago - Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of truce violations. Israeli airstrikes and shootings in Gaza have killed at least 386 Palestinians since the ceasefire took hold, according to Palestinian health officials.

October 14, 2025 - The UN still regards Gaza as Israeli-occupied territory because of the level of control Israel has. Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006, and ejected its rivals from the territory after intense fighting the following year.

2 weeks ago - Immediately after the October 7, 2023, attacks, Palestinians rallied behind Hamas and broadly supported its armed resistance as a means to end Israeli occupation. Since then, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and more than 90 ...

Yes. The prohibitions are not territorial in nature, but rather targeted against the parts of the Palestinian Authority controlled by representatives of Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

statement that Hamas’s conflict is with the “Zionist project” · rather than with Jews in general. It also expressed · willingness to accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank