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The militant Islamic Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will announce the results of their internal elections next month, an official said Saturday, ending a monthslong voting process that will define strategy for the group. Hamas insists it will not...
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Israel -- conditions set by the international community for ending its boycott of the group. In its founding charter, Hamas says that it is committed to Israel's destruction, and the group has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings, shootings...
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Blood and holes in the ground are seen near the site of a car explosion at the city of Port Sudan May 22, 2012. One person was killed when a car exploded in the eastern Sudanese city of Port Sudan on Tuesday in what the government said resembled a blast... View Photo »
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Report: Hamas admits for first time losing more than 600 men in Gaza war.
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"We demand that everyone push ahead with reconciliation [between Fatah and Hamas] and to end the state of division, so that we will be able to stand against the occupation, to halt its activities against our prisoners, and to turn to the struggle to...
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But I think now at least when you measure it by soft power, that's not the case at all." Hamas office In Egypt, there is more evidence of how the Arab spring's upheaval is having an effect on the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas. The rise of the...
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Palestinian school boys in traditional attire attend a rally in support of reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank city of Jenin on May 22, 2012. Top officials from Fatah and Hamas on May 20, struck a deal to push forward reconciliation... View Photo »
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The Fatah-Hamas disunity that is dragging on has negatively affected the Arab interest, however superficial, in the Palestinian issues — this cannot be ignored
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Mr. Morsi has also criticized the Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas for what he called gullible collaboration with Israel in the absence of a Palestinian state, and he has praised Hamas — an Islamist offshoot of the Brotherhood — for resisting the Israeli...
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Hamas (حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni paramilitary organization and political party which holds a majority of seats in the elected legislative council of the Palestinian National Authority. Full Article
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