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Hamas (Harakat
al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, meaning
"Islamic Resistance Movement") is a
Palestinian Islamist organization
established in 1987 to resist the
Israeli military and political
occupation of the Palestinian-populated
Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The group
formed during the First Intifada
(1987-1993), or uprising, against
Israeli occupation. It began as an
offshoot of the banned Muslim
Brotherhood movement in Egypt. The
group's stated objective is
establishing an independent Palestinian
state based on Islamic principles on
the area that is now composed of
Israel, the Gaza strip, the West Bank
and East Jerusalem, and the destruction
of the State
of
Israel.
See
also:
Arab-Israeli
Wars