What does HAMAS stand for?

Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic acronym meaning zeal)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A statement released by Izziddin Al Qassam Martyr Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that the two young men were in al-jihad mission (holy war), east of AL-Shujaiyah neighborhood.

Two Palestinians killed in Gaza blast, three injured in tunnel ...

The dream of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic resistance Movement Hamas, solution is a distant dream, no matter how some people tried to explain the Egyptian paper in this regard, each has its own interpretation, and therefore, this point needs to be fully clarified.

Abbas in Cairo as Hamas rejects disarming military wing

GAZA, Oct 17 (KUNA) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday announced that a delegation will travel on Sunday to the Egyptian capital Cairo to deliver its response to the Egyptian officials on the Egyptian paper on the Palestinian reconciliation.

Hamas delegation to visit Cairo Sunday

Students nationwide will participate in a big celebration at Tehran University (on Tuesday), to be attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate victory of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) over the Zionist regime in Gaza", the report said.

Iranian President to Attend Gaza Victory Feast

Al-Bashir arrived today to the Syrian capital to show his solidarity with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) which controls Gaza Strip since June 2007.

Sudan President discuss Gaza with Syrian President and Palestinian ...

Is acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, or Islamic Resistance Movement.

A look at the Islamic militant Hamas group

Others have given up entirely on the very notion of peace and have joined the swelling ranks of Islamic resistance movements.

Israel has made all the wrong choices if it wants to be accepted

It comes almost 10 months after Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine, made a sweeping victory in an election that was unequivocally democratic, bewildering political pundits, making political observers sit up, overturning many assumptions both regionally and globally.

Hamas Unwritten Chapters