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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. I never sell weapons to Hamas or Hezbollah!

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

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

15. Hamas cannot expect a free pass to respectability.

16. Hamas is a spinoff of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the government of Hosni Mubarak worries about contagion.

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

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

19. 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.

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

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

22. Alliot - Mali 20 interview in the Israeli media said that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) seized Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have committed "war crimes."

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

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

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

26. It has to be a solution that does not allow the rearmament of Hamas.

27. 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.

28. U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff said the United States saw no prospect of Hamas abiding by last week's council call to end the violence.

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

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

31. 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.

32. The two countries are sworn enemies, and Syria is close to Israel's deadliest foes: Hizballah, Hamas and Iran.

33. Israel and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist group.

34. With that deal in place, it appears Israel decided it did not need to make the concessions demanded by Hamas for a ceasefire, particularly the lifting of the economic blockade of Gaza.

35. But Hamas wants the UN to work firmly under its auspices, as it would in a fully-fledged state.

36. Fatah militants also abducted Hamas official Mohammed Ghazal in the West Bank town of Nablus.

37. Secondly, Envoy Wu Sike is now visiting in the Middle East. Will China change its policy on Hamas?

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

39. The aerial raids aimed at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets are being called the most potent Israeli assault in Palestinian-populated territory since the 1967 Six Day War.

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

41. The video shot by Hamas militants was delivered to Israel through the efforts of Egyptian and German mediatory .

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

43. He also said "Syria needs to be held to account" for both housing the militant wing of Hamas and allowing Hizballah to maintain an active presence within its borders.

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

45. But this is an all-out war against Hamas and its branches.

46. "Our sole military goal is to safeguard the people of southern Irael so that one million people no longer have to be on the receiving end of Hamas rockets, " said Regev.

47. Since 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip,(http://) Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.

48. The Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said Israel must stop its attacks, lift its economic blockade of Gaza and open border crossings before any truce proposals could be considered.

49. Hamas has not renounced the armed struggle. Does China take it as a terrorist organization?

50. Israel has insisted that if it's to end its Gaza offensive, it must have assurances that Hamas will not be able to re-arm through tunnels from Egypt or other means.

51. Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused the United States used its veto "over."

52. Residents reported exchanges of gunfire between Fatah and Hamas despite a two - day - old ceasefire.

53. 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.

54. On your third question, we have never labeled Hamas as a terrorist organization.

55. Fewer and fewer have been Hamas fighters, and more have been civilians.

56. Israel's decapitation of Hamas will further weaken whatever influence Hamas had over them.

57. Israel is hinting it would trade hundreds of Hamas prisoners for Corporal Shalit but is balking at some of the names Hamas wants freed.

58. The overhaul of the law was seen as the latest measure taken by Abbas in competing with the rival Hamas, which stands against his power in Gaza since its violent takeover the enclave in mid-June.

59. 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.

60. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist .

61. The victory of Hamas in the elections has caught this comprador class by surprise.

62. U.S. and Israeli officials say they will have nothing to do with Hamas unless and until the group renounces violence and agrees to recognize Israel.

63. Livni said Israel opposes any dialogue with Hamas and does not consider the group a legitimate organization, but rather a terrorist group.

64. Speaking at the border crossing Saturday, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, called it the start of a new era of freedom for the people of Gaza and of closer cooperation with Egypt.

65. Would Hamas and the other Jihadist movements give up their demand for the "dismantling of the Zionist entity"?

66. Tensions between the two factions have been intensified since Hamas outset Fatah from Gaza.

67. Israeli jets hit a guest house used by the Hamas government.

68. It has to be a solution that does not allow the rearmament of Hamas, and it must be a solution that finds a way to open crossings so that Palestinians in Gaza can have normal life.

69. Gaza court run by Hamas then ordered the assets unfrozen and police were dispatched Monday to enforce it, putting them in the odd position of barging into a bank and asking it to hand over the dough.

70. Eric Fosse, a Norwegian doctor there, said Hamas fighters were a small minority of the casualties brought in.

71. But he said Hamas was not ready to recognize Israel.

72. He said they were shooting through walls, throwing grenades around corners, going from house to house looking for Hamas gunmen and using bomb sniffer dogs.

73. But the UN strenuously denies that Hamas fighters were in the school.

74. Xinhua News Agency Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) 20, an official said Egypt has decided to re-open access to the Gaza Strip, Egypt, Rafah crossing channels.

75. Payments to Hamas and its connected tunnel - operators boost the economy too.

76. However, an Israeli government spokesman said that while Israel welcomed the proposal, it could accept the plan only if it halted "hostile fire" from Gaza and included measures to stop Hamas rearming.

77. Hamas is defending Israel chuckles an Israeli foreign ministry official.

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78. Fatah says Fayyad is an excellent nominee because he is a moderate who is acceptable to the United States, European Union and Israel, which consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

79. On January 19 th, the last full day of fighting, Hamas fired 19 rockets into Israel.

80. Ever since Hamas began its one-party rule of Gaza, in the summer of 2007, Israel and the West have tried to turn Gazans against Hamas through an economic embargo and diplomatic isolation.

81. But confronting militants could make you unpopular among a Palestinian electorate that voted the Islamic group Hamas into office in 2006.

82. Israeli Shin Bet Security Agency chief Yuval Diskin claimed Hamas had accumulated over 112 tons of explosives, and Tamir signaled Israel is prepared to act as a result.

83. The onslaught is meant to stop Hamas firing rockets at Israel.

84. They also stress that Hamas politicians were elected democratically by Palestinian voters.

85. One Hamas spokesman in Gaza said the group was open to another ceasefire, but wanted Israel's economic blockade lifted.

86. But if you take seriously what Hamas says in its charter, Hamas itself does believe this. So does Hizbullah, Lebanon's "Party of God"; and so does a rising and soon perhaps nuclear-armed Iran.

87. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Hamas is a terrorist organization that refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel.

88. The leader of the Jihadi Soldiers of God organization blew himself up during a gun battle involving hundreds of Hamas fighters.

89. And the suspicion is that Iran has warned Hamas against reconciliation.

90. "There must be guarantees to ensure Israel will not breach this package, including halting the aggression, lifting the blockade and opening the crossings, " said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas adviser.

91. And despite Mr. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist.

92. Hamas has also won Fatah's agreement to share the running of Gaza's football federation.

93. Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza today, pounding 40 Hamas targets before dawn, including smuggling tunnels and rocket launching sites.

94. Hamas, for example, opened an office in Baghdad in 1999, and Iraq has hosted conferences attended by Palestine Islamic Jihad.

95. Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal will attend the ceremony of signing the agreement.

96. While the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) denied making attacks, but the aircraft 18 and 19 am to the Gaza Strip launched multiple air strikes, killing at least six people were killed.

97. Their sincerity about peace, as well as the split-off of the Gaza Strip under the now-unpopular Palestinian radical group Hamas, provide some hope of an Israeli-Palestinian deal.

98. Hamas said it would hold fire for a week to give Israel time to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.

99. Hamas seized control of Gaza last week after routing Abbas'Fatah movement.

100. Army the same day the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and a safe stronghold south of Khan Yunis area a more farmland launch rockets,() but causing no casualties.

101. Machine gun and mortar fire rang out in heavily-populated Gaza City as Hamas security forces stepped up the pressure on their Palestinian opponents.

102. Yuval Diskin, chief of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, told the cabinet here on Sunday that Hamas had cold-bloodedly killed about 70 Fatah supporters in Gaza under the cover of the war.

103. 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.

104. "My hope is that there will be no more rockets coming out of Gaza and that was my primary request to Hamas leaders and I hope they will comply, " said Carter.

105. Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) security personnel have been rushed to the scene to investigate.

106. Appearing on Hamas Television, Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the group's military wing, said the mortar fire was aimed at deterring further Israeli attacks.

107. Xinhua News: 24 am local time, Israeli warplanes bombed a western Gaza City Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) base, a large area power outage in Gaza City.

108. A terrorist underworld - including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Jaish-i-Mohammed - operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities.

109. 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.

110. The move comes amid fierce fighting between Hamas and rival Fatah.

111. The Israeli Navy operated in front of Deir El Balah in the Central Gaza Strip, targeting Hamas rocket launching sites.

112. Syria also has a few strategic cards — notably its support for Palestinian militants Hamas and Lebanese militants Hizballah — to play when necessary to divert attention from domestic discontent.

113. State-run National News Agency said the blast could have been aimed at Ali Baraka, a member of the Palestinian Hamas movement in Lebanon.

114. Speaking before a special session of the Israeli parliament Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel faces an "all-out war" against Hamas.

115. 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.

116. Hamas calls It'self - defense against Israeli crackdowns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.