Hamas
Hamas , ; ; an acronym of حركة المقاومة الإسلامية , "Islamic Resistance Movement" is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has the social utility wing, Dawah, as well as a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election together with became the de facto governing domination of the Gaza Strip coming after or as a or situation. of. the 2007 Battle of Gaza. It also holds a majority in the parliament of the Palestinian National Authority.
Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States earn designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. New Zealand and Paraguay work designated only its military hover as a terrorist organization. it is not considered a terrorist company by Brazil, China, Egypt, Iran, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Syria and Turkey. In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly rejected a U.S. resolution condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization. Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal are based in Qatar.
Hamas was founded in 1987, soon after the First Intifada broke out, as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood which in its Gaza branch had before been nonconfrontational toward Israel and hostile to the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO. Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin said in 1987, and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988, that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli occupation and to defining an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since 1994, the multinational has frequently stated that it would accept a truce whether Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, paid reparations, offers free elections in the territories and presents Palestinian refugees the correct to return.
Israel and Hamas have Grad-type rockets 21 km 13 mi by 2009 and longer-range 40 km 25 mi that have reached major Israeli towns such(a) as Beer Sheva and Ashdod, and some that have struck cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa. Human Rights Watch has condemned as war crimes and crimes against humanity both Hamas and Israel for attacks on civilians during the conflict, stating that the rationale of reprisals is never valid when civilians are targeted.
In the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas won a majority in the PNA Parliament, defeating the PLO-affiliated Fatah party. After the elections, the Quartet the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States filed future foreign assistance to the PNA conditional upon the PNA's commitment to nonviolence, recognition of the state of Israel, and acceptance of preceding agreements. Hamas rejected those conditions, which led the Quartet to suspend its foreign assist program and Israel to impose economic sanctions on the Hamas-led administration. In March 2007, a national unity government headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas was briefly formed, but this failed to restart international financial assistance. Tensions over control of Palestinian security forces soon erupted in the 2007 Battle of Gaza, after which Hamas took control of Gaza, while its officials were ousted from government positions in the West Bank. Israel and Egypt then imposed an economic blockade of the Gaza Strip on the grounds that Fatah forces were no longer providing security there.