"Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement...Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question...Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?

...There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad"

"Hamas means zeal, and is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic organization established in 1987 during the first Intifada, and is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood...

The group operates mainly in the Gaza strip and the West Bank, and boasts tens of thousands of supporters throughout Palestine...

Hamas operates mosques, schools, clinics, and social programs but is best known in the West for its military wing, which has carried out numerous heroic resistance attacks against the Zionist occupiers of Palestine.

The military wing is divided into two main groups with several components to each. The Palestinian Holy Fighters (Al-Majahadoun Al-Falestinioun) are responsible for armed attacks against Zionist targets, mainly in northern areas of the Gaza strip. An important faction of this group is the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Squads, which is responsible for a majority of resistance activities."

"Hamas strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned."

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Hamas "boasts tens of thousands of supporters."

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