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Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)

Palestinian Islamic movement with an armed wing; its Covenant is dated 18 August 1988.

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  • First Intifada 1987–1988 Primary record 2

    The covenant is dated eight months after the uprising began; it does not itself date the movement's start.

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  1. 1987–1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) intervened in First Intifada
  2. 18 Aug 1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) adopted Hamas Covenant (1988)
  3. 18 Aug 1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) adopted Hamas Covenant (1988)
  4. 18 Aug 1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) adopted Hamas Covenant (1988)
  5. 18 Aug 1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) adopted Hamas Covenant (1988)
Proof 6 sources
  1. Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I issues warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), International Criminal Court, 21 Nov 2024. Primary record
    the highest commander of the military wing of Hamas
  2. The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, 18 August 1988, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 18 Aug 1988. Primary record
    The Islamic Resistance Movement emerged to carry out its role
    The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day.
    Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
    Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it
    There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
    The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews)
  3. Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025), United Nations Security Council, 17 Nov 2025. Primary record
    Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza
    the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw from the Gaza Strip based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization
  4. Rice Begins Peace Mission as Israel Declares Gaza an "Enemy Entity", Voice of America, via GlobalSecurity.org, 19 Sep 2007. Scholarship & press
    the violent takeover of the Gaza Strip, three months ago, by the Islamic militant group
  5. Detailed findings on attacks carried out on and after 7 October 2023 in Israel (A/HRC/56/CRP.3), United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, 10 Jun 2024. Primary record
    the al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for firing 150 missiles towards Tel Aviv
    The Commission finds, on reasonable grounds, that 252 93 people, including 36 children, 71 civilian women, 124 civilian men and more than 20 soldiers, were abducted to Gaza on 7 October
  6. The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Rabin’s murder was followed by a string of terrorist attacks by Hamas, which undermined support for the Labor Party in Israel’s May 1996 elections.
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