1. I never sell weapons to Hamas or Hezbollah!

2. Hamas put the targeting of the Palestinian National Authority.

3. Israeli and U.S. officials call Hamas a terrorist organization.

4. 12 Yassin is the founder of the militant Islamic movement Hamas.

5. The potential exists for Hamas to morph into something entirely different.

6. He defines the Arabic word hamas as enthusiastic, but intelligent, anger.

7. Hamas started atrocity and doesn't want to end it.

8. Israel and the West consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

9. Yassin is the founder of the militant Islamic movement Hamas.

10. Following the death , Hamas fired barrage of rockets into southern Israeli communities.

11. Hamas, however, sought to participate in the formal political scene.

12. Israeli warplanes continue to hIt'suspected Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

13. Hamas claims the support of about 15 percent of the population.

14. Aro from Kurdistan Commentary notes the hyprocrisy in Turkey's support of HAMAS:

15. Hamas, which also opposed participation, also supported the holding of municipal elections.

16. Al-Fatah won all nine seats in the chamber, easily defeating Hamas candidates.

17. We welcome the recent agreement between Israel and Hamas on exchange of prisoners.

18. Turned out she was Hamas, and the whole thing was stuffed with explosives.

19. And both events have further encouraged and incited Arab rejectionists such as Hamas.

20. It's the first direct talks between Fatah and Hamas since March last year.

21. Mahmoud Zahar, more of a hardliner within Hamas, has called for conciliation too.

22. Gunbattles in Gaza on Saturday defying a truce between the Fatah and Hamas factions.

23. A Hamas leaflet handed out at the cemetery called for three days of national mourning.

24. As the ruling party, Hamas remains accountable for the relentless, vicious attacks on Israel’s citizens.

25. On Sunday, Hamas had issued a statement saying it would halt violence for three months.

26. 6 The key requirement is that Hamas be judged by its deeds rather than its declaratory words.

27. More recently, Hamas and Israel have conducted air and land operations in the densely populated Gaza Strip.

28. He has watched aghast as the Hamas bombing campaign has killed 57 people in nine days.

29. For example, the 2006 electoral victory of the Palestinian Hamas cannot be understood without acknowledging the group's social work.

30. No reason was given for the arrest of Abu Arafeh, who works for a Hamas-affiliated news agency.

31. Hamas leaders had said in recent interviews that they would claim victory if turnout was lower than 50 percent.

32. Hamas was widely believed to draw its inspiration from the spiritual leaders of Mujama'a in the Gaza Strip.

33. Hamas says Mr Abbas , whose electoral term has expired without a fresh poll , has no right to represent the Palestinian people .

34. There is currently no guarantee that a political truce with Hamas or Hezbollah would result in a renunciation of their absolutist vision.

35. 9 Rumours of a round-up of collaborators with Israel, including a Hamas member of parliament, keep Gazans edgily in check.

36. The Blockade of the Gaza Strip is the ongoing land, air, and sea Blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007, after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip during the Battle of Gaza, seizing government institutions and replacing Fatah and other Palestinian Authority (PA) officials with Hamas members

37. The army wants to avoid entering built-up areas such as refugee camps where Hamas fighters would have the advantage of defending home territory.

38. Hamas leader in Gaza and former Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya called for the government to throw open the Egyptian border with Gaza.

39. That the State Department both administers the Fulbright program and has listed Hamas as one of 36 Foreign Terrorist Organizations adds a surreal quality to this problem :

40. Since 200 the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip, Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.

41. With Turkey's leaders Coquetting as the new best bedfellows of Iran and embracing the terrorists of Hamas, the Wilson Center has just bestowed its "Public

42. Since then, divisions ofthe Brotherhood have tied themselves with extremist groups such as Al-Jihad andJamaat al-Islamiyya in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine, and the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

43. A - Hamas, or Islamic Resistance Movement, believes Palestinians must use force of arms in their struggle with Israel. Fatah is largely secular and has pursued negotiations with Israel.

44. A statement from Israel's military said those detained were leaders of an ongoing effort to restore the administrative branch of Hamas, which Israel considers a terrorist organization.

45. According to the Israeli government , a current Fulbright scholar from the West Bank " is known as an activist " in Hamas - one of the terror groups suspected in the bombing

46. 9 S. Middle East peace effort ran into the buzz saw of Hamas-Fatah internecine strife combined with a Palestinian inability to abandon the narrative of victimhood and vilification of Israel.

47. Also , law enforcement found an unsigned Arabic - language document in Alamoudi ' s office with ideas for Hamas to undertake " operations against the Israelis to delay the peace process . "

48. 30 The 2006 Israeli assault on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the 2009 attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip demonstrated that rocketry couldn't be neutralized by air power alone.

49. Despite this scorn , Islamists are eager to use elections to attain power , and have proven themselves to be agile vote - getters ; even a terrorist organization ( Hamas ) has won an election .

50. In contrast, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which shares the same theology and ideology as Hamas but lacks a social-service-provision network, is no more lethal than the secular nationalist groups.

51. Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, is founded by Muslim Brotherhood members during the first intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli military presence in the West Bank and Gaza.

52. For the time being, Hamas has survived without dealing with its own vulnerabilities, including its anti-Semitic charter, its disregard for the laws of war, and its propensity for authoritarianism.

53. 7 The U.S. Middle East peace effort ran into the buzz saw of Hamas-Fatah internecine strife combined with a Palestinian inability to abandon the narrative of victimhood and vilification of Israel.

54. Son of slain ‘Collaborator’ sentenced to death by Hamas Shadi al-Sufi, 38, was found guilty of killing Jaber al-Qeeq, a former activist with the PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of

55. Gaza Strip - Gaza Strip - Blockade: In autumn 2007 Israel declared the Gaza Strip under Hamas a hostile entity and approved a series of sanctions that included power cuts, heavily restricted imports, and border closures

56. With Turkey's leaders Coquetting as the new best bedfellows of Iran and embracing the terrorists of Hamas, the Wilson Center has just bestowed its "Public Service" award on Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu.

57. But Hamas says, with some cogency, that it has been illegal for Mr Abbas to retain his post as the PA’s president since January this year, when his four-year term should have run out.

58. In this regard, the Special Rapporteur has expressed concern at the aerial bombing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on # arch # in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which resulted in the deaths of seven other civilians

59. The last time Israeli forces did real damage to the Palestinian war machine , in May 2002 , for example , Khaled Meshaal of Hamas announced that the Israeli devastation was actually " a Palestinian victory that lifted the morale of our people . "

60. 2007: Arab League delegation visits the State of Israel for the first time in history, to discuss the League's newly reaffirmed Arab Peace Initiative as well as the threat posed by Hamas and other Islamic extremists.

61. The chances that the Bush administration might be able to rally America’s Sunni “moderate” allies in the region to help salvage an Israeli-Palestinian peace are now hostage to an Iranian-led regional axis that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.

62. The military wing of the Hamas movement, al-Qassam Brigades, recently published a statement of its “evolution of military tactics” including the “development and accumulation of strength since 2006.” The publication allows a glimpse into the growing military capabilities of the militant

63. "The leaders of both the PA and Hamas must take immediate steps to break the cycle of impunity that continues to fuel abuses, including arbitrary detentions, abductions, torture and ill-treatment by their forces," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East Programme Director.

64. European Court Annuls EU decision to put Hamas on terrorist list The new law Annuls previous ones issued under proclamations 29 of July 9th 1944, 42 of August 25th 1946, 42 of 1955 as well as law decrees 9 of 1970 and 8 of 1948

65. Secondly, the temporary aid mechanism put in place after the sanctions in 2006 against the Hamas government has not, alas, despite the sums invested, succeeded in preventing a humanitarian tragedy with an increase in infant mortality, the appearance of new diseases and extreme poverty in the occupied territories.

66. Absorbed by their booming economy, reassured by President Barack Obama’s recent commitment never to let Israel down, and convinced of their success in defeating Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank and deterring Hamas from venturing into another war, Israelis have lost any sense of urgency concerning the Palestinian problem.

67. George W Bush had branded Dr AssadAEs regime as a cheerleader of terrorism, a haven for Iraqi Baathist and jihadist insurgents, the assassin of LebanonAEs Druze, Maronite and Sunni political elite, IranAEs proxy in the heart of the Arab world, weapons supplier to Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.