Hamas

= __Table of contents__ =


 * **//Introduction of Hamas//**
 * **//Goal of Hamas//**
 * **//Budget information//**
 * **// About Mommad //**
 * **// About Shin Bet //**
 * **// History of Hamas //**
 * **// Political, Social and Economic influences //**
 * **//One of video clip giving information about Hamas//**
 * **//Bibliography//**

= __Introduction of HAMAS__ =

//HAMAS is a Palestine Islamic social-political group that is having a paramilitary force, which is called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The government of Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan and the US, the UK and Australia are classifying this organization as a terrororist organization because of its negative moves and impacts on the world.//

= __Goal of HAMAS__ =

//Hamas is established in order to get the liberation to Palestine.//

= __Budget information about HAMAS__ =

//The large portion of Hamas funding usually comes from Saudi Arabia or Iran, other small donators such as the Palestinian expacts, and private donors contribute to a small fraction of Hamas’s annual income. Hamas is known for supplying large amounts of money to families that have suicide bombers after there deaths. This Financial income is believed to be paid monthly. Various sources have told us that Mossad had supported Hamas in there early years of growth, for a counterbalance to the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO for short. A French news paper “ Le Canard enchaîné said that Shin Bet also supported Hamas for the same reason as Mossad. Some suspect that they planed and made agreements on who pays for what. Hamas’s 2010 budget is set to be approximately 540 billion US dollars. Iran is supplying up to 90% of this money buy using foreign aid to fund it.//

= = =** __Mommad__ **=

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//The Mommad is responsible for gathering intelligence and ordering operations including paramilitary activities. Mommad is one of the most important entities in Israeli Intelligence, along with Aman (Helps with the Military Intelligence) and Shin Bet (Helps with the Internal Security) Usualy Mossad only reports to the Prime Minister.//=====

=** __Shin Bet__ **=

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//Shin Bet or the Israel Security Agency (ISA for short), is Israel's main internal security center. Its motto is "Magen VeLo Yera'e" which translates to "Defender that shall not be seen” It is one of three big organizations for the Israeli Intelligence, also included in these three are Aman (the military intelligence) and Mossad which is responsible for overseas intelligence.//=====

= **__HAMAS History__** =

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//Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement was created in 1987 three men named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taha. These men where high ranking officials of Egypt’s Palestinian Muslim brotherhood at the beginning of the First Intifada ( Inifada was a Palestinian uprising// //Hamas// //Israeli occupation in the Palestinian Territories) The frequently bombed the Israelis six years after the group was formed. The first of them occurred in early April, 1993. In 2005 Hamas announced they will stop suicide bombings but they then changed there announcement in April of 2006 and said that they would start bombing the public against. Hamas was also responsible for rocket attacks that first occurred in 2001, IED (improvised explosive device) Attacks and shootings. These things where all reduced between 2005 and 2006.// ===== //1988// **// – Hamas was first started
 * 1989 ** - Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin bleeded guilty in an israli court for ordering Hamas members to kidnap/kill two Israeli soldiers.
 * April 1994 ** - Hamas commits its first suicide bombing. Five people were killed in Hedera.
 * 1996 ** - The Palestinian Authority cracks down on Hamas, after a series of suicide bombings in Israel that killed more than 50 people. After the bombings, the PNA arrests just under 140 suspected Hamas members.
 * 1997 ** - Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was released from prison.
 * 1999 ** - King Abdullah closed down the Hamas headquarters in Jordan.
 * 2001 ** - The U.S. State Department listed Hamas to be one of the terrorist groups that made it on there official terrorist group list.
 * June 12, 2003 ** - A suicide bomber dressed as a Jew detonates on a bus in Jerusalem, killing more then 15 Israelis. Hamas claimed responsibility.
 * August 20, 2003 ** - A suicide bomber detonates him self on a bus killing more 20 Israelis and two tourists. Not only did Hamas claim responsibility but another extremist group, Islamic Jihad also claimed responsibility.
 * January 2004 ** - The first Hamas female suicide bomber kills four people at Erez crossing.
 * March 14, 2004 ** - Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim responsibility for an attack at the an Israeli port at Ashdod. Which killed at least10 Israelis.
 * March 22, 2004 ** - Hamas leader Yassin is killed by an Israeli air strike in his home.
 * March 23, 2004 ** - Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi is named as Yassin's successor.
 * April 17, 2004 ** - Rantisi is killed by an Israeli air strike on his car.
 * August 31, 2004 ** - Hamas claims responsibility for explosions on multiple buses in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva that killed at least over 15 people and wounding more than 100.
 * September 26, 2004 ** - A leading member of Hamas Izz Eldin Subhi Sheikh Khalil was killed by a car bomb that was detonated as he left his home in Damascus,
 * December 12, 2004 ** - An attack on a checkpoint that borders between the Gaza Strip and Egypt killed at least five Israelis. Hamas once again claims responsibility.
 * January 14, 2005 ** – Hamas suicide bombers detonate a bomb at the Karni crossing at the Israel-Gaza border that kills more then five Israelis.


 * January 25, 2006 ** - Hamas, ran for government for the first time. They ran as the "Change and Reform Party," The group had 62 candidates.
 * January 26, 2006 ** - Hamas wins in the Palestinian elections. Hamas wins more then half of the 136 seats in government.
 * June 25, 2006 ** - Hamas militants attack an Israeli military post and kill two soldiers. A third soldier was kidnapped. The Palestinian government denied any knowledge of the attack and kidnapping.
 * June 1, 2007 ** - After seven days and nights of battles between Hamas and Fatah, Hamas seized control of Gaza.


 * April 18-19, 2008 ** - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with exiled Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal, in Damascus.
 * June 2008 ** - a Cease-fire between Hamas and Israel was negotiated. Hamas agrees to stop firing rockets at Israeli communities as a consequence Israel will allow some trade into and out of Gaza. The Cease-Fires are only allegeable for six months


 * December 19, 2008 ** - Hamas ends cease-fire with Israel.
 * From December 24, 2008 ** - The rocket attacks from Hamas increase. //

= __Political violence given by HAMAS__ = = = = First Intifada =

//First Intifada First started in 1987 and later finished in 1993 was a Palestinian uprising the Israeli people occupying Palestinian Territories. The first uprising in the First Intifada happened in the Jabalia refugee camp // //, it then quickly spread throughout Gaza and the West Bank. It then later spread though Jerusalem. The Palestinian actions mostly included nonviolent Civil Disobedience how ever there were some violent actions. General strikes where very common during this time and boycotts where often put in place to release Islamic pore over Palestinian land. Palestinian Strikes included stone throwing by youths against the Israel army’s barricades. The violence that was committed by the Palestinians where directed at both Israeli soldiers and Israeli civilians.//

= __Social changes of HAMAS__ =

= = //Socially Hamas has become well known through its propaganda and its political power. Most people make the mistake of thinking that Hamas uses violence to be known but because Hamas has so much power in government it only uses violence to prove a point; not to create attention.//

= __Economic changes of HAMAS__ =

//Because the symbol of Hamas is suiciding terror, many western countries reacted to this by announcing discontinue of economic assistance, which was usually supported by Yasser Arafat's government before. Yasser Arafat is a founder of PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and head of autonomy country of Israel and Palestine. He helped many some terror countries to get peace for each other but they are having many wars each other after Arafat dead. Because of ceasing economic assistance, all the people in palestine got destitution. In addition, After Israel started to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, most citizens in Palestine were caught in critical situation came from terrible humanitarianism.//







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= = = __HAMAS Short Film Clip!__ =

__http://www.linktv.org/video/1554/hamas-in-the-eyes-of-the-news__

= __Works cited__ =



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