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The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli
Ruins of Rafah in January 2025 after Israel's Rafah offensive
Weapons found in a mosque during Operation Cast Lead, according to the IDF.
Exercise of al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza City, 27 January 2013
Hamas flags at the 25th anniversary rally in 2012
Al-Qassam Brigades
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Al-Qassam Brigades, also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, are the military wing of the Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist organization, Hamas. Led by Mohammed Deif until his death on 13
Hamas
…romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. In July 2026 it announced the resignation of its civilian administration under the Gaza…
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Syrian Muslim preacher and leader in Arab nationalist resistance to British and French rule, a militant opponent of Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s
Qassam rockets launched from Gaza, on display at an Israeli police station at Sderot, 2009.
Al Qassam militants rappelling during a training exercise in Gaza, January 2013