Hamas

The French Anti-Israeli organization EuroPalestine sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip hosted by the Hamas administration.

The delegation held a small, low-profile display near the security fence and promised to promote Hamas’ political agenda in France and international legal forums.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 19-25, 2012)

The quiet in Israel’s south continues. Since November 21 no rockets or mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip have hit Israeli territory. Palestinian civilians continue defying IDF forces along the security fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip. n This past week Palestinians twice attacked IDF soldiers in the Jerusalem region.
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Hamas held mass rallies throughout Judea and Samaria to mark the 25th anniversary of its founding.

The rallies, authorized by the Palestinian Authority, turned into demonstrations of Hamas power and forums for inciting to terrorism against Israel.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 12-18, 2012)

Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to implement the understandings reached at the end of Operation Pillar of Defense. Since November 21 no rockets or mortar shells have been fired into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. This past week the focus of violence was in Judea and Samaria.
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Analysis of the Ratio between the Names of Terrorist Operatives Killed during Operation Pillar of Defense and Civilians Killed in Error *

This study examines the names of the Palestinians killed during Operation Pillar of Defense, both terrorist operatives and non-involved civilians.
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Members of Hamas’ Internal Security Services Who Were Also Operatives in Hamas’ Military-Terrorist Wing and Were Killed in Operation Pillar of Defense

An examination of the names of 25 members of the internal security services in the Gaza Strip who were killed in Operation Pillar of Defense shows the great extent of the phenomenon of security service members who have double identities.
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Hamas

Hamas is a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim organization founded in the Gaza Strip in 1987 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. It seeks to establish an Islamic state on the entire territory of the State of Israel and does not recognize Israel’s right to exist.


The Hamas leadership has two branches: the internal leadership, which includes the military wing and the de-facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, responsible for the day-to-day activities of governing the Gaza Strip population, in addition to social, educational activity vis-à-vis the population of the Gaza Strip; and the external leadership, Hamas’s political bureau, located beyond the borders of the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria. The external leadership maintains relations with various countries and bodies, and deals mainly with raising money and finding other resources for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.


Hamas’s ideology seeks to establish an Islamic Palestinian state on the entire territory of Israel. The preferred way to achieve this goal is through armed struggle. Hamas has a military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which carries out terrorist attacks against Israel, including rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and various kinds of other attacks (such as shooting, suicide bombings, abductions etc.) in the territories of Judea, Samaria and Israel.


Over the years, Hamas has challenged the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, causing conflicts between the sides, culminating in June 2007 with Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and the suppression of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority members. Ever since, the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority has grown.

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including Israel, the United States, and the European Union.