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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; Arabic: منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīniyyah) is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in both the Palestinian territories and the diaspora.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist and Islamic fundamentalist socio-political organization based in the Gaza Strip with an associated paramilitary force, the al-Qassam Brigades. Hamas (حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al ...
The Syrian civil war left the Palestinians divided over the Assad regime. Leaders endorsed the 2011 civil uprisings in Syria and left their Syrian headquarters in Damascus in 2012. [4] Some Palestinians accused Assad of enabling torture and murder of Palestinians, [5] and later the demolition of Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, notably ...
Speaking to the AP in Istanbul, Al-Hayya said Hamas wants to join the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by the rival Fatah faction to form a unified government for Gaza and the West Bank.
However, the organization retains considerable political influence within the PLO, since no new elections have been held for the organization's legislative body, the PNC. The PFLP developed contacts at this time with Islamic fundamentalist groups linked to Iran – both Palestinian Hamas, and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah. The PLO's agreement ...
However, the group denied responsibility for the attack. [33] On 8 October an Israeli airstrike on Damascus killed 13 people. [13] On 14 October, two Israeli tanks crossed into Syria, positioning themselves south of Quneitra. [34] On 20 October, a guided missile attack on a car killed two people near the Golden Mazzeh hotel in Damascus. [35]
However, since 2017, Hamas has said it accepts a Palestinian state shaped around the borders of 1967, which existed prior to the war in which Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza ...
Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, and a recognition of the group’s roots and early ties to one of the Sunni world’s most prominent groups, the Muslim Brotherhood ...