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October 23, 2023 Special Dispatch No. 10899

The Ideology Of Hamas – In Its Own Words

October 23, 2023
Palestinians | Special Dispatch No. 10899

The atrocities carried out by members of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 were rooted in the movement's extremist ideology. This ideology is expressed in many statements by the movement's leaders and clerics, which have been documented by MEMRI for over two decades, and is set out in detail in Hamas' Charter, published in 1988.[1]

Hamas – the acronym for the movement's full name, the Islamic Resistance Movement, in Arabic – is a Sunni Islamist terror organization that is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its goal is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in all of Palestine, "from the river to the sea," by means of uncompromising jihad. This campaign is regarded as part of the Muslims' ongoing jihad against the Jews that will continue until the Judgement Day and will end with the annihilation of the Jews. 

Hamas also defines itself as part of the Islamic resistance movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate.

The main principles of Hamas' ideology, as articulated in its Charter and in statements by its leaders and spokespersons, are the following:

--The conflict with Israel is a religious war between the Muslims and Jews that will continue until the End of Days.

--Jihad and martyrdom are the only way to liberate Palestine "from the river to the sea"

--All of Palestine, "from the Jordan river in the east to the Mediterranean in the west" is waqf land (i.e. a religious endowment sacred to Allah), so the religion forbids relinquishing even an inch of it. Peace negotiations and normalization with Israel are forbidden and anyone who engages in them is a traitor against Allah and His Prophet and is destined for Hell.

--Israel has no right to exist, and jihad against it must continue until it is eliminated and all of Palestine is liberated

--No Israelis are civilians. All Jews in Palestine, including children, are combatants and may be killed by every means: stabbed, beheaded or bombed, including in suicide operations.

--Tahdia (a temporary lull in fighting) with Israel is possible as a tactic, but the overall strategy is ongoing jihad

--Martyrdom is a supreme value and part of jihad. Martyrdom-seekers (i.e., suicide attackers)  "love death as much as the enemy loves life" and are rewarded in Paradise.

--Antisemitism: Jihad is against the Jews, who are destined for annihilation.

--The Jews are "the descendants of apes and pigs"[2]; they are subhuman or "microbes." They have controlled the world for centuries according to the plan set out in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Characterized by "Nazi-like" behavior, they spread corruption in the world in order to gain wealth and power, and are behind all the wars in history. They killed Christian children – and now kill Palestinian children – as part of their religious rituals. This is the reason the Europeans expelled them and Hitler killed them (although some Hamas leaders have also denied the Holocaust).

--The Jews brought about the fall of the Islamic caliphate and their goal is the annihilation of Islam.

--The liberation of Palestine is a prelude to the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate. Rome will be conquered by Islam as Constantinople was once conquered, and then the rest of the world will be overtaken, including America and Eastern Europe.

--Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and is also supportive of global jihad leaders. Osama Bin Laden was "a Muslim jihad fighter," and bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam was "a symbol of jihad and martyrdom"

--Children must be raised to wage jihad, seek martyrdom and fight for the liberation of all of Palestine from the Jews

The following are reports and clips published by MEMRI over the years that reflect Hamas' ideology.

The Hamas Charter – A Religious, Antisemitic Document That Calls For Uncompromising Jihad Against The Jews

Special Dispatch No. 10897, The Hamas Charter – The Ideology Behind The Massacre

 

Jihad And Martyrdom – The Only Way To Liberate Palestine From The River To The Sea; Jihad Against The Jews Is The Personal Duty Of Every Muslim

Hamas: The War For Palestine Is A Religious War

Article On Hamas Website: Our War Against The Occupation Is A Religious War Against The Descendants Of Apes And Pigs

Hamas PM Ismail Haniya: We Are a Nation of Jihad and Martyrdom

Hamas Culture of Martyrdom - Preacher Mahmoud Al-Khila: Those Next to the Martyr Receive Divine Reward Too, of a Lesser Degree

Gaza University Lecturer and Hamas TV Host Iyad Abu Fanun: Love for Jihad Is in the Palestinian People's Genes

Hamas MP in Friday Sermon: Jihad is the Only Way to Liberate Jerusalem

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya: Jihad Is the Strategic Option of this Nation

Hamas Government Official Issam Miqdad Extols the Virgins of Paradise: 'I Pray that We Will Earn These Great Trophies from the Lord'

On Hamas TV, Gaza Judge Omar Nofal Extolls the Six Virtues of Martyrdom, Says: Jihad in Palestine Is an Individual Duty Incumbent upon All Muslims

Celebrating Terrorist Attack In Elad, Near Petah Tikva, Israel, Hamas And Gaza-Based Jihadi Clerics Call It 'Heroic' Response To The 'Lie' Of Israel's Independence Day

Hamas Praises Recent Terror Attacks In Israel, Calls For Escalation And Launch Of New Intifada, Threatens: 'The Palestinian Volcano Will... Erupt In Occupation's Face'

Speaker at Hamas Police Graduation Ceremony: The Sons of Palestine Were Born to Blow up Their Enemies, Die as Martyrs

Senior Hamas Official Fathi Hammad To Palestinians In Jerusalem: Buy 5-Shekel Knives And Cut Off The Heads Of The Jews

Palestinian Legislative Council Candidate and Bereaved Mother of Three Hamas Terrorists Umm Nidal Farhat: Israelis Are Not Civilians and There Are No Prohibition on Killing them. I Am Willing to Sacrifice All My Sons

Gaza University Dean of Quranic Studies Approves Killing Jewish Women and Children

Hamas Cleric Extols Palestinian Women who "Surpass All Women, in Jihad and Martyrdom"

Hamas Women Vow to Become "Martyrdom-Seekers" and Blow Themselves Up among "the Apes and Pigs"

Al-Aqsa TV Fillers: Take Them to Hell... Tear Them to Pieces

Gazan Scholar Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra: It Is Our Religious Duty to Fight the Jews and "Kill them Wherever You May Find Them"

Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Other Palestinian Groups Threaten Violence During Ramadan – 'The Month Of Jihad And Martyrdom'

Fmr. Hamas Chief Khaled Mashal on the Role of Women in Palestinian Society: They Are Martyrdom-Seekers, They Help Martyrdom-Seekers, and they Replace Martyred, Imprisoned, Or Exiled Men

Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hammad Calls on Palestinians All over the World to Slaughter Jews, Says: If Israel Doesn't Lift the Siege by Next Friday, We Will Kill the Jews with Explosive Belts and Knives

Senior Hamas Official Fathi Hammad: We Will Cleanse Palestine of the Filth of the Jews, Heal the Nation of the Jewish Cancer; Netanyahu, Lieberman, We Are Coming to Chop Off Your Heads!

Hamas Gaza Rally: In A Few Years The Resistance Will Destroy Israel

The Positions And Statements Of Hamas's New Political Bureau Head Isma'il Haniya: "We Are Truly A People Who Love Death As Much As Our Enemies Love Life"; Bin Laden Was A "Muslim Mujahid... May Allah Cover Him With His Mercy, Next To The Prophets, The Righteous, And The Martyrs"

Columnist in Daily Close to Hamas: 'We Are All Martyrdom-Seekers'

Palestinian Reactions Immediately Following Tel Aviv Shooting: It Was 'A Natural Reaction'; 'A Ramadan Operation'; Palestinian Presidency One Day After Shooting: 'We Oppose Actions Against Civilians From Any Side'

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya: Jihad Is This Nation's Strategic Option

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Condemns the Killing of the "Muslim Mujahid" Osama Bin Laden

Hamas Cleric and TV Host Iyad Abu Funun: We Must Return to Our Land by All Means - Including Bombs and Explosive Belts

 

Israel Has No Right To Exist; No To Negotiations With It

Hamas Political Bureau Member Osama Hamdan: We Oppose Just One Thing – The Existence Of Israel; We Are Willing To Help The Israelis Go Back To Where They Came From

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The Land Is Not Suitable for a Two-State Solution; the Israelis Should Leave – Netanyahu Should Go Live with His Father in the U.S., and Lieberman with His Father in Russia

Hamas Official Talal Nassar Praises Tel Aviv And Bnei Brak Terror Attacks, Adds: We Will Trample The Skulls Of The Zionists; Israel Will Be Annihilated, Palestine Will Be 'Either Ours Or Ours'   

Hamas Cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita: The Annihilation of the Jews in Palestine One of the Most Splendid Blessings for Palestine

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Reaffirms Hamas' Commitment to Armed Resistance and Says: We Will Liberate Palestine in Its Entirety, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al: Our Proposal for Tahdiah ("Calm") Is Tactical

Alongside Reconciliation With Fatah, Hamas Officials Tighten Relations With Iran, Call To 'Wipe Israel Off The Map'

Ongoing Statements By Hamas Officials In Praise Of Jihad To Liberate Palestine 'From The River To The Sea'

Ongoing Statements By Hamas Officials In Praise Of Jihad To Liberate Palestine 'From The River To The Sea'

Hamas-Sponsored 'Promise Of The Hereafter' Conference For The Phase Following The Liberation Of Palestine And Israel's 'Disappearance': We Must Differentiate Between Jews Who Should And Should Not Be Killed, And Prevent A Jewish 'Brain Drain' From Palestine

At Event Marking Hamas' 35th Anniversary At Al-Quds University In East Jerusalem: Calls For Jihad To Liberate Palestine 'From River To Sea'

Senior Hamas Officials: We Intend To Run For Office In Elections While Maintaining The Armed Struggle For The Palestinian Land 'From The River To The Sea'

Hamas Rejects Quartet Representative Blair's Demands: 'We Will Not Give Up Our Principles As Part Of Solving The Problems Of Gaza Residents'

Hamas Senior Officials At Movement's 27th Anniversary Celebrations: We Will Not Recognize Zionist Entity Or Be Satisfied With A Palestinian State Within 1967 Borders; We Thank Iran For Supplying Us With Weapons, Missiles

Columnist for Hamas Daily Calls On Palestinians To Adopt United Front Against Recognizing Israel

Senior Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: Hamas Is Not Committed To 'International Legitimacy', Only To Resolutions That 'Agree With Our Rights'; Disarming The Palestinians In Lebanon's Refugee Camps Might Get Them Massacred Again   

Hamas Military Parade: All Palestine Is Ours from the River to the Sea

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al: We Will Not Relinquish an Inch of Palestine, from the River to the Sea

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Reaffirms Hamas' Commitment to Armed Resistance and Says: We Will Liberate Palestine in Its Entirety, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River

Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Stresses that Hamas Is Not Following in the Footsteps of Fatah: We Do Not Recognize Israel and Do Not Give Up the Rest of Palestine

Hamas PM Ismail Haniya: The Occupation Has No Future on the Land of Palestine - from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River

Hamas Preacher Sheik Ismail Aal Radhwan: Those Who Negotiate with Israel Will Be Gathered in the Hellfire, along with the Apes and Pigs

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al in a Tehran Mosque: We Will Drive Them Out of the West Bank and All of Palestine"

Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: We Will Not Give Up the Resistance; We Will Not Give Up a Single Inch of Palestine; We Will Not Recognize Israel's Right to Exist

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, in Visit to Tunisia: We Shall Not Relinquish Palestine, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River

Hamas Prepares For Next Military Confrontation With Israel

Hamas MP Mushir Al-Masri: UAE-Israel Deal Is Like An Adulteress Marrying An Adulterer; the UAE Has Committed 'High Treason' Against Allah

Hamas Cleric and TV Host Abu Funun: We Will Not Leave a Single Jew, Dead or Alive, on Our Land

Hamas Cleric and TV Host Abu Funun: Israeli Blood is not on a Par with Palestinian Blood

 

Western And Islamic Antisemitic Themes In Hamas Rhetoric

Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Justifies Persecution of Jews in History and Declares That Jews "Are Headed to Annihilation."  

Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal: The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the "Great Massacre" through which Allah Will "Relieve Humanity of Their Evil"

Deputy Speaker of Hamas Parliament Ahmad Bahr: We Will Sweep the Siblings of Pigs and Apes out of Our Land

Young Boy Recites Song on Hamas TV: The Jews Are Barbaric Apes, the Most Evil of Creatures

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras: The Jews' Conspiracies and Treachery Led to the Holocaust

Former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad: We Will Annihilate the Brothers of Apes and Pigs

Hamas Official Ahmad Bahr Preaches for the Annihilation of Jews and Americans

On Hamas TV, Islamic Cleric Salah Nour Cites Antisemitic Hadith, Glorifies Jihad: The Muslims Will Rule the Entire Earth

Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: Arab Regimes Should Ask Why the Holocaust Happened; All European Countries Deported, Killed Jews Because They Spread Corruption, Collaborated with the Enemy

Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hamad: The Annihilation Of Monstrous State Of Israel Would Heal The World Of All Corruption, Warmongering, Theft

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Normalization With The Prophet-Slayers Is Treason; Islam Will Enter Every Inch Of The Earth

Hamas Official Sheikh Hamad Al-Regeb Refers To Jews As 'Brothers Of Apes And Pigs' During A Rafah Friday Sermon, Prays For Annihilation Of Polytheists And Atheists, Adds: 'Oh Allah, Enable Us To Get To The Necks Of The Jews'

Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: The Quran Tells Us to Drive the Jews Out of Palestine in Its Entirety

Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal: The Abominations of the Jews Merited Their Transformation into Apes and Pigs

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras: Hitler Hated the Jews Because of Their Crimes; Everything Said about the Holocaust Is a Lie

Hamas Leader, Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, on Jewish History

Hamas TV: The Holocaust Was Part of a Zionist Plan to Get Rid of the Jewish Elderly and Handicapped

Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal on Swine Flu and "the Brothers of Apes and Pigs"

Jews Portrayed as Blood Drinkers in an Antisemitic Drama Aired on Hamas TV

Hamas TV Cartoon Depicts Koran-Based Story of Jews Being Transformed into Apes

Blood Libel on Hamas TV - President of the American Center for Islamic Research Dr. Sallah Sultan: Jews Murder Non-Jews and Use Their Blood to Knead Passover Matzos

Hamas Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments: Jews Are Bacteria, Not Human Beings

Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad: The Americans and the Jews Are Abhorred Worldwide; The Americans Are Led by the Jews, "Outcasts Who Live Off Corruption and Plundering"

Top Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: Jews Use Blood for Passover Matzos

Hamas MP Sheik Yunis Al-Astal: Allah Punished the Jews throughout History and Will Use the Islamic Nation to Punish Them Again

Hamas Official Fathi Hamad's Speech Was No Exception: Repeated Antisemitic Statements From Hamas Officials And In Hamas Media

Former Hamas Official In Homophobic And Antisemitic Article: Jews Spread Homosexuality In The World; We Must Not Let Israelis, Who Allow Homosexuality To Run Rampant In Their Country, To Control Our Fate

Special Dispatch No. 7361 - Former Hamas Official In Antisemitic Article: The Jews Used The Blood Of Non-Jews To Prepare Pastry For Purim - 03/01/18

Palestinian Journalist: The Jews – A Nation Hated Since The Beginning Of Time

Hamas: Withdraw Arab Peace Initiative; Article In Hamas Newspaper: Holocaust Is A Lie

Articles in Hamas Media on How Jews Gained From Holocaust: 'The Holocaust Is One of the Widest Doorways Through Which Jews Entered the Western World'

Former Hamas Official: In The Past, The Jews Slaughtered Christian Children On Passover; Today They Torment And Kill Palestinians Instead

Former Hamas Official In Homophobic And Antisemitic Article: Jews Spread Homosexuality In The World; We Must Not Let Israelis, Who Allow Homosexuality To Run Rampant In Their Country, To Control Our Fate

Based on Koranic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals

Former Hamas Official: In The Past, The Jews Slaughtered Christian Children On Passover; Today They Torment And Kill Palestinians Instead

Hamas Opposes UNRWA Intention To Teach About Holocaust

Palestinian Columnist: The 'Jewish Holocaust' Never Happened; Schools Must Teach the Palestinian Holocaust

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The Jews Were Banished From Every Country In The World, Sent To Palestine To Weaken Our Historic Islamic Movement; Ukraine Is A Jewish Country     

Former Hamas Representative In Tehran Mustafa Al-Lidawi: Jews Used Blood Of Non-Jewish Children For Passover Matzos; Israelis Still Believe In This Practice But No Longer Perform It

Hamas Official Ismail Radhwan: People Involved in Security Coordination with Israel Will Be Gathered in the Hellfire with the Apes and Pigs –Jews to Whom They Were Loyal

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras: Hitler Hated the Jews Because They Are a People of Treachery and Betrayal

Hamas-Affiliated Scholar Bassam Jarrar: The Jews Played a Role in the Economic Collapses of Germany in the 1920's and America in 2008; Allah Turned Them into Apes and Pigs

Hamas TV Host Sheikh Wael Al-Zarad: Israel, the Jews Live on Blood and the Sight of Body Parts

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras in a Friday Sermon: The Jews Are "the Vilest Nation in History"

Hamas Clerics Al-Zarad and Al-Astal: The Jews Are the "Enemies of Mankind" Who "Wallow in the Shedding of Blood"

Senior Hamas Official Al-Bardawil: Jews Kill Palestinian Children in Order to Knead Their Blood into Passover Bread

Hamas Cleric and TV Host Iyad Abu Funun: The Zionists Are More Nazi than Hitler

 Palestinian Imam and Hamas TV Host Abu Funun Justifies Hitler: The Jews Spread Corruption Everywhere

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar Rejects Colleague's Criticism of His Antisemitic Rant: The Jews Corrupted European Societies - 06/05/18

Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Recounts Numerous Cases of Jewish Expulsion from Europe to Demonstrate Trump's "Hypocrisy"

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras: Hitler Hated the Jews Because of Their Crimes; Everything Said about the Holocaust Is a Lie

Gaza University Professor Abdul Samee' Al-'Arabeed on Hamas TV: The Jews Are Human Garbage, Behind Every Conspiracy

Former Hamas Minister Ismail Radwan Slams Arab Countries That Normalize Relations with Israel, Refers to Jews as "Apes and Pigs"

Writer In Hamas Mouthpiece: The Holocaust Exists Only In Israeli Tales – And In The Minds Of Supporters Of Normalization With Israel

Hamas Official Sheikh Hamad Al-Regeb Refers To Jews As 'Brothers Of Apes And Pigs' During A Rafah Friday Sermon, Prays For Annihilation Of Polytheists And Atheists, Adds: 'Oh Allah, Enable Us To Get To The Necks Of The Jews'

 

Call For Global Caliphate; Loyalty To Muslim Brotherhood

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The 'Army Of Jerusalem' Will Not Liberate Palestinian Land Only; The 512 Million Square Kilometers Of Planet Earth Will Come Under A System With No Zionism, No Treacherous Christianity

Palestinian Legislative Council Deputy Speaker and Hamas Senior Official: The Revolutions in the Arab World – A Prelude to an Islamic Caliphate

Hamas Interior Minister Calls for Third Intifada and Declares: We Will Establish Islamic Caliphate

Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Our Enterprise Extends Far Beyond Palestine - to the Entire World

Hamas Sermon in Gaza: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse When It Is Too Late

Head Of Hamas Diaspora Office Khaled Mash'al: Hamas Seeks To Restore Ties With Arab Countries, Especially Saudi Arabia; We Adhere To The Ideology Of The Muslim Brotherhood But Are An Independent Movement

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al Praises Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi for His Support of Suicide Operations and States: The Holocaust Was Exaggerated and Is Used to Extort Germany. Zionist Holocaust against Arabs Much Worse.

Hamas MP/Cleric's Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome, the Two Americas, and Eastern Europe

 

Support for Global Jihad

Gaza Conference Attended By Senior Hamas Officials Glorifies 'Abdullah 'Azzam, Mentor Of Al-Qaeda Founder Osama Bin Laden, Urges Teaching His Ideology And Writings

On Anniversary Of Bin Laden's Death, Telegram Channel Named For Hamas Military Wing Al-Qassam Brigades Posts Messages In His Memory

Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Commemorates Osama Bin Laden's Mentor Abdullah Azzam: He Was A Symbol Of Jihad; Martyrdom For The Sake Of Allah Is Man's Loftiest Aspiration

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Condemns the Killing of the "Muslim Mujahid" Osama Bin Laden

 

Indoctrination Of Children

Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hammad: Kindergartens, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools Will Teach Gaza's Children How to Liberate Palestine; Our Youth Should Join Al-Aqsa and Al-Qassam Brigades

The 'Islamic Bloc': Inculcating Hamas Ideology In Gaza Schools

Children on Hamas TV: We Want to Wage Jihad and Blow Up the Jews

Hamas Children's Magazine Al-Fateh Encourages Terrorism, Glorifies Martyrdom

Hamas And Islamic Jihad Summer Camps In Gaza: A Framework For Jihadi Indoctrination, Military Training

Motto Of Hamas Summer Camps This Year: 'Marching On Jerusalem'; Their Goal: To Train The Generation That Will Liberate Palestine, Jerusalem

Hamas Summer Camps: Liberating Palestine With Rockets, Rifles, And Pistols

Al-Quds Intifada Summer Camps In Gaza Offer Training In Stabbing, Firearms, Tunnel Combat

Hamas' 'Saplings Of Jerusalem' Summer Camps In Gaza Offer Weapons Training To Prepare Kids For Liberating Palestine

Rajaa Al-Halabi, Head Of Hamas Women's Movement: A Martyrdom-Seeking Girl Has Only One Thing On Her Mind – To Meet Her Lord Through Her Blood, Body Parts; Children In Gaza Are Raised To Love Jihad From Infancy   

Hamas And Islamic Jihad Summer Camps In Gaza – Teens Undergo Military-Style Training, Simulated Target Practice, Chant: We Are The Men Of Muhammad Deif!

Hamas Bee Nahoul Abuses Cats, Lions at Gaza Zoo, Calls for Liberation Of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Children In Hamas TV Kids' Show: The Criminal Jews Are Plotting To Replace Al-Aqsa Mosque With Their False Temple, But We Will Defend Jerusalem To Our Last Drop Of Blood; Jihad Is The Pinnacle Of Islam

Animated Feature on Hamas TV Children's Show 'Pioneers of Tomorrow': Jews Educate Children To Hate, Kill Arabs

Pre-Schoolers Stage Terror Display at a Gaza Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Hamas Holiday Song Performed by Children: Give Us Our Pocket-Money to Buy Guns and Wage Jihad

Hamas TV Bee, Nahoul, Weeps over "Martyred" Family and Chit-Chats with Kids on Animal Slaughtering

New Animated Film on Hamas TV Focuses on Child Martyrdom

Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hammad: Kindergartens, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools Will Teach Gaza's Children How to Liberate Palestine; Our Youth Should Join Al-Aqsa and Al-Qassam Brigades

Military Performances, Glorification of Suicide Bombings at Graduation Ceremony of Hamas Youth Camps

Young Children of Hamas Member Muhammad Al-Homs, Killed with Ahmad Jaabari: We Want to Be Martyred Like Our Dad

Nahoul the Bee Replaces Farfour - Hamas Mickey Mouse - and Vows to Continue on His Path of Martyrdom and Jihad

 

[1] It should be noted that on May 1, 2017, Hamas published a policy document to present itself in a more pragmatic light, which stated that  "Hamas regards the establishment of a fully sovereign independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in the June 4, 1967 lines, and the return of the refugees and the uprooted individuals to the homes from which they were expelled, as a national, agreed-upon, and joint formula." However, the same article also stated that "this does not mean recognition of the Zionist entity or compromise on any of the Palestinians' rights," and that "there is no compromise on any part of Palestine under any conditions, any circumstances, or any pressure, no matter how long the occupation continues. Hamas rejects any alternative to the complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea… " It adds that Israel's existence is null and void from its establishment" and that The resistance and the jihad to liberate Palestine will remain a legitimate right, duty, and honor for all members of our people and our [Muslim] nation

Hamas leaders also clarified that this policy document did not replace the movement's charter.  On this policy document see MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1313, "Hamas Policy Document: Palestinian State In 1967 Borders Is 'National, Agreed-upon and Joint Formula' By Hamas, PLO – Yet Armed Struggle Will Continue, And Palestine Extends From River To Sea" – May 5, 2017.

[2] On the Islamic tradition that the Jews are the descendents of apes and pigs, see MEMRI
Special Reports No. 11 - Based on Koranic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals – October 31, 2002.

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