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Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
The aftermath of the 1994 Dizengoff Street bus bombing in Tel Aviv
Yagur Junction bombing was a suicide attack on the Egged 960 bus in 2002. Hamas was responsible for about 40% of the 135 suicide attacks during the Second Intifada.
Ismail Haniyeh became the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006
Hamas rally in Bethlehem
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the unicameral legislature of the Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It currently comprises 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts of the Palestinian Authority. The PLC has a quorum requirement of two-thirds, and since 2006 Hamas and Hamas-affiliated members have held 74 of the 132 seats in the PLC. The PLC's activities were suspended in 2007 and remained so as of November 2023, while PLC committees continue working at a low rate and parliamentary panel discussions are still occurring.
Entrance to the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah
Inside the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006
PLC building, Ramallah
The destroyed Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza City in September 2009.