Hamas
Palestinian political and military organization
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| April 2025 | Hamas filed a legal case in Britain appealing its terrorist group designation, arguing they have never engaged in armed operations outside historic Palestine. |
| March 2025 | Ahmed Shamali, Deputy commander of Gaza City Brigade, was killed during the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| March 2025 | Issam al-Da'alis, Head of Hamas government in Gaza, was killed. |
| March 18 2025 | Israel broke the ceasefire, and shelling of the territory continued. |
| February 2025 | Hamas condemns Israeli attacks on Syria. |
| January 2025 | United States-brokered ceasefire went into effect, with Hamas retaining control over the Gaza Strip as IDF withdrew. |
| January 19 2025 | A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect. |
| January 2025 | US Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs, Adam Boehler, engaged in direct talks with Hamas to negotiate the release of American hostages, with explicit approval from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. |
| 2024 | During the Nuseirat rescue operation, locals criticized Hamas for using civilian houses to hide hostages, highlighting local resistance to the practice of human shields. |
| 2024 | Hamas temporary committee decides to rule through committee until leadership elections in March 2025. |
| 2024 | The European Council added six people to its sanctions list for helping fund Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including a senior official from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
| November 2024 | Qatar reportedly quit mediation between Israel and Hamas and ordered the group to leave the country following U.S. pressure, though Qatar and Hamas denied this report. |
| November 2024 | The UN reported challenges in independently verifying Israel's human shields allegations in Gaza and raised concerns about Palestinian armed groups' compliance with International Humanitarian Law regarding military objectives near populated areas. |
| October 16 2024 | Mohammed Sinwar takes over leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, succeeding Yahya Sinwar. |
| October 16 2024 | IDF troops killed Yahya Sinwar during a routine patrol in southern Rafah. |
| September 2024 | Switzerland approved a draft law to ban Hamas. |
| August 2024 | Jaber Aziz, Commander of the Al-Furqan Battalion, was killed. |
| August 2024 | Abd al-Hadi Siam, Commander in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was killed. |
| August 2024 | Yahya Sinwar was elected chairman of Hamas, replacing Haniyeh. |
| July 2024 | Mohammed Deif, Head of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was assassinated. |
| July 2024 | Rawhi Mushtaha, Chairman of the economic committee, was killed. |
| July 2024 | Rafa Salama, Commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade, was assassinated. |
| July 2024 | Argentina's government under President Javier Milei officially designated Hamas and its military wing as a terrorist organization. |
| July 2024 | The International Court of Justice issued a landmark opinion calling for Israel to dismantle settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and end its 'illegal' occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip. |
| July 31 2024 | Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. |
| July 23 2024 | Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Fatah, reached a unity government agreement through China-mediated talks, which was announced in the 'Beijing Declaration'. |
| May 2024 | The United States urged Qatar to remove Hamas leaders from its territory if they declined to agree to a hostage deal with Israel. |
| May 2024 | A poll revealed Hamas's support in Gaza dramatically fell to only 25%, while increasing to 76% positive views in the West Bank. |
| April 2024 | Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas Member of Parliament, proposed a significant concession of a potential five-year truce with Israel and potential transformation into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. |
| March 2024 | Ra'ad Thabat, Member of Hamas's political bureau, was killed. |
| March 2024 | Marwan Issa, Deputy of Mohammed Deif, was killed. |
| March 2024 | Razi Abu Tama'ah, Head of the combat support array, was killed. |
| February 2024 | Israeli government presented its first official plan for future control of the Gaza Strip. |
| February 2024 | New Zealand re-designated the entire Hamas organisation as a terror entity. |
| January 2024 | Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Jaffer Ladak attributed a strategic shift in Palestinian resistance to Qasem Soleimani, moving away from suicide bombings towards underground warfare and strengthening connections with the broader Islamic resistance network. |
| January 2024 | Ismail Siraj, Commander of Nuseirat brigade, was killed. |
| January 2024 | Salah al-Arouri, Deputy head of Hamas, was assassinated. |
| January 2024 | Human Rights Watch reported at least two incidents where Palestinian fighters appeared to use Israeli hostages as human shields during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel in Kibbutz Be'eri and Nahal Oz. |
| January 2024 | Khaled Mashal, a former Hamas leader, rejected the two-state solution based on 1967 borders, asserting Hamas' claim to Palestinian land 'from the sea to the river' while simultaneously expressing conditional acceptance of a state on 1967 borders. |
| January 19 2024 | EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell publicly stated that Israel had financed the creation of Hamas, contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's denials, while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Valladolid. |
| January 18 2024 | IDF reported that Hamas began rebuilding its military armies in occupied parts of Northern Gaza, restoring fighting capabilities of battalions. |
| January 6 2024 | Israeli government declared that Hamas' rule in northern Gaza Strip was eliminated due to military advances. |
| January 1 2024 | Jerusalem Post released selected footage of IDF Unit 504 interrogations of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants, alleging tactics of civilian exploitation, including preventing civilians from fleeing and forcibly taking over homes. |
| 2023 | A Qatari official confirmed monthly transfers of $30 million to Hamas in an interview with Der Spiegel. |
| 2023 | Hamas was compared to ISIS by some analysts due to its brutal methods, though US military analyst Andrew Exum denounced such comparisons as 'misguided'. |
| 2023 | Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave an interview to Politico, alleging that Israel deliberately undermined the Palestinian Authority and supported Hamas over the past 15 years by facilitating financial support through Qatar. |
| 2023 | After the Hamas-led attack on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied claims of intentionally facilitating Hamas financing, stating the transfers were to prevent 'humanitarian collapse'. |
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