Return to Terrorist Groups and Front Organizations Subject Indices

Hamas
(Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya, The Islamic Resistance Movement)
Selected Materials from the Global Terrorism Monitor:

Background

Covenant

U.S. Department of State data

U.S. Treasury Designation and Fact Sheet

 

Legal Proceedings

US Department of Justice Press Release

Indictment

 

Members and Associates

Imad Khalil Al-Alami

Yehiya Ayyash

Usama Hamdan

Ismail Haniya

Musa Abu Marzouk

Khalid Mishaal

Abdel Aziz Rantisi

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin

Mahmoud Zahhar

Members of Hamas in Hebron from the Qawasameh tribe are described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_Hamas_called_Qawasameh

The structure of one cell is illustrated here:
http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/isa.htm

 

Bibliographical References

Ziad Abu-Amr, Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad, Indiana University Press

Abd al-Fattah M. El-Awaisi, The Muslim Brothers and the Palestine Question 1928-1947, I.B.Tauris

Khaled Hroub, Hamas: Political Thought and Practice, Institute for Palestine Studies

Samuel M. Katz, The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber, Fromm International

Beverley Milton-Edwards, Islamic Politics in Palestine, I. B. Tauris

Shaul Mishal, Avraham Sela, The Palestinian Hamas, Columbia University Press

Andrea Nusse, Muslim Palestine: The Ideology of Hamas, Routledge

Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg, The Road to Martyr's Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber, Oxford University Press

Michael Oren, Hamas, terror in the service of God, American Jewish Committee

Alisa Rubin Peled, Debating Islam in the Jewish State: The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel, State University of New York Press

Stephen C. Pelletiere, Hamas And Hizbollah: The Radical Challenge To Israel In The Occupied Territories, University Press of the Pacific

Maxine Rosaler, Hamas: Palestinian Terrorists, Rosen Publishing Group

 

Links:

ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/print?id=79201

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/978626.stm

Chronologies/Timelines
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/middleeast/gaza_timeline.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58486,00.html
http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgattack.cfm?orgid=13
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20475
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=59918
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-22-hamas-timeline_x.htm

Council on Foreign Relations
http://cfrterrorism.org/groups/hamas.html

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_list.htm?topic=7777

Hamas
http://www.hamasonline.org/

Institute for Counter-Terrorism
http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=13#activity

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/isa.htm

Jewish Post
http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0203/jpn0303.htm

National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/ottolenghi200601261002.asp

Palestinian Information Center
Hamas (in Arabic);
http://www.palestine-info.info/arabic/hamas/

English news and features
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/

Political Risk Monitor Feature on Palestinian Elections
https://www.politicalrisk.com/2006/01/PRM2902.html

United Press International
http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

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