| July 28, 2008 | - A bombing in Gaza killed five Hamas militants and an eight-year-old girl.
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China View
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| January 27, 2008 | - At 20 points along the Gaza Strip's southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestinians—13 percent of the territory's population—to cross into Egypt and shop. The Gazans purchased camels, candy, cement, chairs, cheese, cigarettes, computers, cows, doughnuts, gasoline, generators, goats, mattresses, medicine, motorcycles, pistols, potato chips, sheep, snack cakes, soap, and televisions. Supplies at Egyptian shops dwindled, prices spiked, and fistfights ensued. Several Gazan women married Egyptians, and the Israel Defense Force patrolled its southern border for would-be suicide bombers and hostage takers.
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New York Times
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Jerusalem Post
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AFP
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Dublin Independent
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| November 25, 2007 | - In Annapolis, Maryland, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened a meeting of Middle Eastern leaders, excluding Iran and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. “We must not view Annapolis as a failure,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said before the summit started. “Nothing good will come out of it,” said Riham Abu Khater, a 17-year-old Gazan woman attending a protest march. “Good will only come from the language of fighting, and from force.” Hamas pledged to pack more explosives in its homemade rockets, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Participation in this summit is an indication of the lack of intelligence of some so-called politicians.”
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Daily Star
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Haaretz
Source 3:
Haaretz
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Jerusalem Post
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| July 4, 2007 | -
Hamas brokered a deal for the freedom of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who had been held for 114 days in Gaza.
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BBCnews.com
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| June 25, 2007 | -
Hamas militants released an audio recording of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in which he states, “I am sorry that the Israeli government has not shown more interest. It should meet the demands of my kidnappers so I can be released.”
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Hamas militants released an audio recording of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in which he states, “I am sorry that the Israeli government has not shown more interest. It should meet the demands of my kidnappers so I can be released.”
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BBC
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| June 15, 2007 | - President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government and declared a state of emergency after masked Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas looters broke into former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat's home and stole military outfits, photographs of his daughter, and his Nobel Peace Prize. “I see Iraq here,” a bystander in Gaza said. “There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”
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New York Times
Source 2:
The Jerusalem Post
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New York Times
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| May 28, 2007 | -
Hamas told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas it would accept a truce with Israel if the IDF halted air attacks in Gaza, and threatened to kill hostage Gilad Shalit should Israel fail to comply.
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Ha'aretz
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Hamas was fighting Fatah in Gaza and sending Qassam rockets into Israel, which was bombing Gaza in return.
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Reuters
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| October 2, 2006 | -
Hamas and Fatah planned to resume negotiations for a unity government.
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Haaretz
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Israeli troops detained a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a shootout near Boudai, Lebanon.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| June 2, 2006 | -
Palestinian militants conducted a raid in Israel and abducted an Israeli soldier, whom they carried to Gaza via a secret tunnel. Israel retaliated by bombing Gaza's main power plant, two bridges, the offices of Palestine's prime minister and interior minister, and a soccer field, and by arresting as many as 64 Palestinian officials. Palestinian militants demanded that Israel release all Palestinian prisoners who are women or under the age of 18. A number of Israeli and Palestinian officials speculated that Israel's actions were intended to weaken or topple Palestine's Hamas government.
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VOA News
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| May 25, 2006 | - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas-led
Palestinian Authority to accept the goal of establishing a Palestinian state (and thus acknowledge Israel's right to exist); if Hamas does not comply, he said that he will call a national referendum on the issue.
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CNN.com
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| April 17, 2006 | - The Iranian government promised to give $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by Hamas, which let it be known that it would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Jewish state were to withdraw from the entire West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
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CNN.com
Source 2:
Democracy Now!
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| February 14, 2006 | - The United States and Israel were working together to destabilize the Hamas-led government of Palestine. “It's not possible,” countered Hamas spokesman Farhat Asaad, “for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy.”
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The New York Times
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| January 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States would cut off aid to Palestine if Hamas assumed power without changing its policies. "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," said Rice, even though publications like The Guardian and the The New York Times had, since at least 2003, published regular reports on the increasing popularity of Hamas in Palestine. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
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CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
Source 3:
Gawker.com
Source 4:
The Guardian
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| January 30, 2006 | -
Senator Joseph Biden (D., Del.) said Hamas would have to change its stripes.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| January 26, 2006 | - The Islamic group Hamas won 76 of 132 parliamentary seats in Palestine's parliamentary elections, unseating the Fatah party. U.S. President George W. Bush, whose administration supported open democratic elections in Palestine, said that the United States would not negotiate with Hamas until the organization renounced its chartered goal of destroying
Israel.
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BBC News
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| September 26, 2005 | -
Hamas announced that it would stop using the Gaza Strip to stage incursions into Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to crack down on the group.
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LA Times
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| March 18, 2005 | -
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that they would join the PLO.
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Haaretz
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| February 2, 2005 | -
Hamas threatened "all-out martyrdom attacks" if raids and killings in the occupied territories did not stop.
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The Guardian
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| April 18, 2004 | -
Israel assassinated Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who succeeded Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the leader of Hamas in Gaza after he was killed by an Israeli missile last month; The Bush Administration "strongly urged" Israel to show "maximum restraint."
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Washington Post
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| April 18, 2004 | -
Israel assassinated Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who succeeded Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the leader of Hamas in Gaza after he was killed by an Israeli missile last month; the Bush Administration "strongly urged" Israel to show "maximum restraint."
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New York Times
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| April 5, 2004 | - A Shiite militia known as the Mahdi Army rose up across Iraq in response to a call by Moktada al-Sadr, a militant cleric, to "terrorize your enemy." Last week Sadr announced that he is "the beating arm for Hezbollah and Hamas here in Iraq."
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New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - A lamb was born in Hebron with "Allah" spelled out in Arabic on its flank; the lamb's owner said the animal was born on the day Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was assassinated. Some people claimed they could see the word "Muhammad" spelled out on the lamb's other side.
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BBC
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| March 22, 2004 | -
Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas; Sheikh Yassin, an elderly, partially blind quadriplegic, was hit in his wheelchair with a missile as he left a mosque in Gaza City.
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New York Times
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| September 11, 2003 | -
Israeli warplanes destroyed the family home of a Hamas leader, killing his son and wounding 26 others.
Ahmed Aurei accepted the position of Palestinian prime minister.
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New York Times
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| September 10, 2003 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus stop near Tel Aviv; another bomber exploded in front of a café in Jerusalem.
At least 13 people died in the attacks.
Israeli forces killed three men, two of whom were said to be Hamas leaders, and a twelve-year-old boy, who was hit by shrapnel.
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New York Times
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| September 7, 2003 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, resigned, and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was injured in an Israeli
airstrike.
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New York Times
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| June 29, 2003 | -
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade agreed to a temporary cease-fire,
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New York Times
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| June 22, 2003 | - The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians continued to move forward: Israel assassinated a Hamas leader;
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New York Times
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| June 13, 2003 | -
Israelis and Palestinians were doing their best to slaughter one another in a vigorous exchange of revenge attacks; Israel's defense minister ordered security forces to "use everything they have" to destroy Hamas; Hamas responded in kind and released a statement calling on "all military cells to act immediately and act like an earthquake to blow up the Zionist entity and tear it to pieces."
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Guardian
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| June 9, 2003 | -
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade responded to the summit with a joint attack on an Israeli military outpost in Gaza, killing four soldiers.
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Washington Post, Reuters
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| May 2, 2003 | - A day later Israeli tanks invaded a crowded neighborhood in Gaza and killed 12 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including a two-year-old boy, in a hunt for a Hamas weapons smuggler.
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New York Times
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Hamas proved that it still has the power to prevent such negotiations by sending a wave of suicide bombers into Israel, which culminated in a double bombing on a crowded Jerusalem street that left at least 10 people dead.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Yasir Arafat declared a state of emergency and arrested 110 suspected Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.
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| December 4, 2001 | - American officials declared that they were “on a roll” and that the next targets in the crusade against terrorism were Saddam Hussein, Hamas, and the Hezbollah network in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Yaakov Levy, an Israeli delegate, told the committee that a “close reading” of the 1987 Convention Against Torture, which Israel signed, “clearly suggests that pain and suffering, in themselves, do not necessarily constitute torture.” An Israeli death squad killed a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was suspected of planning suicide attacks.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
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| August 7, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated two Hamas leaders along with six others, including two young boys (seven-year-old Bilal Abu Khader and his five-year-old brother, Ashraf) who happened to be walking by when the missiles exploded. “Today is a day of one of our most important successes,” said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Israel declared a cease-fire with the Palestinians; Hamas responded by blowing up a car.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Hamas announced a new campaign of suicide bombings to welcome Ariel Sharon's new government.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces assassinated a leader of the militant Hamas movement.
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