Questions tagged [hamas]
Hamas is a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, dedicated to destroying Israel. In 2006, following the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the Palestinians elected Hamas to govern the Gaza Strip, which is semi-autonomous. Use with the [israel] and [gaza] tags as needed.
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Who made public "Jericho Wall" -- the blueprint that Hamas followed on Oct 7?
According to the NYT, a Hamas-sourced document codenamed "Jericho Wall" was somehow made public. It described in a fair bit of detail how the Hamas attack on Oct 7 eventually unfolded. (In ...
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Hamas and Palestinian Authority reproduction policies
Yasir Arafat had been on the record of making statements like:
The womb of the woman will be our strongest weapon against the Zionists!
The long-term implication is that the Israel's position vis-à-...
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What do we know about Hamas’s abuse of the Gazan population?
A ynetnews.com opinion piece reads:
The claim "ethnic cleansing" also lacks a basis in reality. Those learned academicians base their claim on the removal of civilians in Gaza from the ...
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How does the Biden Administration intend to keep humanitarian aid to Gaza out of the hands of Hamas?
President Biden announced that he was sending aid to the Gaza strip, and warned Hamas against taking said aid
President Biden on Thursday warned Hamas against diverting
humanitarian shipments to the ...
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Has Hamas commented on the burning of the Israeli dead during Oct 7?
There are numerous reports of Israeli victims being burned (sometimes after being killed) on Oct 7. E.g.
As in other sites attacked by Hamas, the bodies were grouped together and set on fire. “They ...
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What are the exact terms of the recent Israeli-Palestinian cease fire?
Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza (or perhaps the Hamas movement?) have recently agreed to a cease fire. But - what are the exact terms? Is there a text of that available somewhere?
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Why didn't Hamas take West Bank from Fatah in 2007?
Hamas and Fatah fought for the Gaza Strip in 2007. As a result Hamas took over the strip.
But Hamas has showed many times they care for East Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic) very much.
They have the ...
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Under the plan proposed by Egypt how much influence would the existing Hamas government have over the new government of experts?
It calls for an initial cease-fire of up to two weeks during which
Palestinian militants would free 40 to 50 hostages, among them women,
the sick and the elderly, in return for the release of 120-150
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Is there a precedent of Hamas allowing the Red Cross to visit their hostages?
It seems the Red Cross is operative in the Gaza Strip, so Hamas doesn't object in principle to their activity, quite the opposite, they depend on humanitarian aid, and they're accepting it readily, ...
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How many fighters and how much material from the US-trained Palestinian security forces have passed to Hamas?
How many fighters and ho much material from the US-trained Palestinian security forces have passed to Hamas (or other Islamist militias)?
Since signing the Oslo accords the US have tried to train ...
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Did Hamas & PIJ manage to smuggle in substantial numbers of fully assembled rockets after 2014?
In 2014, the IDF gave a breakdown of their estimates of the Hamas rocket arsenal. Interestingly, in the 45km range rockets, the whole-piece smuggled ones dominated, but in the 75km range, it was ...
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Has China always decided to not criticize Hamas or was there some kind of policy shift?
China has long backed the Palestinians and been quick to denounce
Israel over its settlements in the occupied territories. It has not
criticized the initial Hamas attack on Oct.7 — which killed about
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Have any Hamas officials ever opined in regard to Gaza-Sinai State (aka "Greater Gaza") proposal?
According to Al-Jazeera in 2017 Israel and the Trump administration worked on a deal that would see an establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza and parts of Northern Sinai (possibly exceeding the ...
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