Hamas? What is Hamas, page-2

This is Hamas, @williak


I was in Jerusalem in 1996 when Hamas bombed this bus and killed 26 innocent civilians.
That's the action of a terrorist organisation....not a "resistance" group.

Hamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian group opposed to peace accords signed in the early 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the body representing most Palestinians.

Despite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority (the main governing body of the Palestinians) Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.
In February and March 1996, it carried out several suicide bus bombings, killing nearly 60 Israelis.

IMAGE COPYRIGHTAFP

image captionHamas said it was behind a suicide bombing of a bus in Jerusalem in February 1996 in which 26 people were killed