What is Hamas? The Gaza militant group behind surprise attack on Israel | ABC News



Hamas de facto seized Gaza β€” also known as the Gaza Strip, one of the two major Palestinian territories β€” following election wins there in 2006 and a violent conflict with the competing Fatah political group in 2007. Since then, Fatah has continued to govern in the West Bank territory to the northeast.

What is Hamas? The militant group behind surprise attack on Israel has ruled Gaza for years: https://trib.al/aLX9JxG

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26 comments

  1. You forgot to show here how vicious Hamas are towards their own people . They butchered and executed Fatah members in the worst ways.

  2. Where did isis go? Oh voting must be around the corner oh silly mr.

  3. Looks like a fake missile they’re holding.

  4. They are militants, but more like terrorists. Doing destructions, kellings, hostage innocent people, and yet they are called Islamic political militants? Wtf.

  5. For what i can say i dont think organization hamas is only for palestine do you think others continent is connect with them too?

  6. So hamas is another taliban got ya classic muslims

  7. And because they dont recognize israel it means they did not invade israel but they are retaliating resisting the israeli occupation and they have the right to do so.

  8. What prompted the Hamas Rocket attack ???

  9. I support my palestinians!

  10. They are terrorist. It is so difficult to say?

  11. Come on, Israeli warriors, you must win

  12. Is this how they preach islamic gospel to the world how on earth will somebody in his/her right consider embracing islamic religion?πŸ€”

  13. Terrorist group not militant group

  14. the people of mars stand with israel, we will fight jupiter to protect israels right to exist.

  15. Terrible. Someone PLEASE explain to me how a group of terrorists think people are golng to be sympathetic to their cause by murdering innocent young, unarmed people at a music festival?

  16. "Militant group"??
    I think you mean Terrorist Group.
    We see which side ABC & Disney are standing with.

  17. Trained from young up .. a terrorist group. They will be held accountable to God on their deathbed. Nothing goes unpunished πŸ™πŸ»

  18. Also listen the recent interview of ex-prime minister Olmert to DW on support of Hamas by Netaniyahu: "First 'get rid of' Hamas, then Netanyahu" : "And the fact also is that for a period of time, for years, Netanyahu explicitly preffered to deal with Hamas in order not to have to deal with the Palestinian Authority. Why? Because he did not want to negociate peace with the Palestinian Authority and therefore, he put all the efforts in order to create a certain rapport with the Hamas. We know that the Hamas was financed with the assistance of Israel – for years – by hundreds of millions of dollars that came from Qatar with the assitance of the state Israel, with the full knowledge and support of the Israeli goverment led by Netanyahu. Netanyahu, when he took over in 2009, said that his primary responsibility and priority is to destroy Hamas. And throughout the period that he was prime minister, he made every possible effort in order to build Hamas rather than to detroy it. And in a certain way the expansion of the Hamas and strengthening of Hamas is largely also a result of this policy of Netanyahu".

  19. Are these people not wanting to live a peaceful life

  20. Israel: "Release hostages and we will allow water, food, medical supplies and fuel deliveries to resume. " Palestine and Egypt: No calls to release hostages, only condemnation of Israel. Know why? I will tell you why. Most of the hostages are dead. Any men women or children still alive are alive only so they can be repeatedly gang raped and tortured by the Palestinians. They could never release them still alive for fear their stories of abuse under the hands of the Palestinians would be so horrible that even the left-wing media would be forced to report on them. There will never be hostages freed. The Palestinians will fabricate stories that they were all killed by Israel bombing Gaza and again the left-wing media will provide them a platform to spread their lies.

  21. To consider is not the same as to be..

  22. Modern Day
    Einsatzgruppen

  23. Palestinian Civilians hitting, punching and laughing at the Israel Civilian Hostages of Hamas is pure Evil! Now the tide is turned and they are asking Israel to stop. They ask for it. They should get it.

  24. HAMAS +VIOLENCE EQUALS THE SPIRIT OF AMELEK

  25. So United States of America and European nation will be the one to decide who will be called a terrorist. Japanese empire who killed many civilians didn't recognized as a terrorist, U.S.A killed civilians in Vietnam didn't call themselves terrorist, ADOLF HITLER who killed millions of jews was not a terrorist even POLPOT KHMER who killed millions of Cambodian did not fit as a terrorist also STALIN can't be a terrorist. WHY?