Hamas

Type	Political and militant organization
Country/region	Palestine
Archived items	56
As of	2026-08-21

Hamas as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name it. Nothing here is written by a model. The Overview is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-21

Most recent archived item: Muslim Charity in Britain Faces Scrutiny for Possible Links to Hamas - reported by outlet not recorded

Most recent archived item: outlet not recorded

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Overview

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

History

Hamas was established in 1987, and allegedly has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations. Unlike other Palestinian factions, after the Israeli occupation of Gaza in 1967, the Brotherhood in Gaza refused to join the resistance boycott against Israel. In the 1980s, Hamas emerged as a powerful political factor, challenging the influence of the PLO, whose Fatah faction it had played a core role in creating. In December 1987, the Brotherhood adopted a more nationalist and activist line under the name of Hamas. Hamas was initially discreetly supported by Israel as a counter-balance to the secular PLO. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the organization conducted numerous suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel. In the Palestinian legislative election of January 2006, Hamas gained a large majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament, defeating the ruling Fatah party. After the elections, conflicts arose between Hamas and Fatah, which they were unable to resolve. [1]

Overview

The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. In July 2026 it announced the resignation of its civilian administration under the Gaza peace plan and US President Donald Trump announced that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement to disarm Hamas. The Hamas movement was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987 after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Initially, Hamas was discreetly supported by Israel, as a counter-balance to the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to prevent the creation of an independent Palestinian state. In the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas secured a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council by campaigning on promises of a corruption-free government and advocating for resistance as a means to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. In the 2007 Battle of Gaza, Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from rival Palestinian faction Fatah. [2]

Reporting

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

Other archived reporting

[3] 2026-08-21 - outlet not recorded: Muslim Charity in Britain Faces Scrutiny for Possible Links to Hamas
[4] 2026-08-19 - juancole.com: Is Hamas Really the reason there is no Mideast Peace ?
[5] 2026-08-18 - outlet not recorded: Make No Mistake, Hamas Is Still the Spoiler in Gaza
[6] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
[7] 2026-08-11 - ng.ru: Hamas militants were given softer disarmament conditions
[8] 2026-07-24 - outlet not recorded: Mother of St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, fallen soldier whose remains were held by Hamas, passes away
[9] 2026-07-22 - outlet not recorded: Israel Plans Crocodile-Infested Moats to Guard Hamas Prisoners
[10] 2026-07-03 - outlet not recorded: How Hamas is trying to rebuild after 1,000 days of war
[11] 2026-06-23 - outlet not recorded: Dispatch from Ukraine
[12] 2026-06-11 - outlet not recorded: The world ignores Gaza’s suffering when it’s at Hamas’ hands
[13] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
[14] 2026-06-06 - ynet.co.il: Gaza is a step away from catastrophe
...and 44 more not listed here.

See also: Palestine · Gaza

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Overview is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Overview source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).