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Hamas (Arabic: حماس Ḥamās enthusiasm an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist organization with an associated military wing the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades located in the Palestinian territories.Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections and then defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes.
