Hamas has fired thousands of rockets across the Gaza border at Israeli communities;

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

Ashraf al-Koumi says for him, Hamas has delivered.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The United States has criticized Syria and Iran for supporting militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Hamas aims to destroy Israel and has killed hundreds of Israelis.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

The Bush administration has blamed Hamas for inciting the latest violence.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

Egypt,for the most part, has kept its border with the Palestinian territory closed since Hamas militants came to power in 2007.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Mr.Netanyahu said he will fly on Tuesday to Egypt, which has been mediating between Israel and Hamas on the prisoner swap.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Egypt has been mediating between rival Palestinian factions Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The soldier is being held in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip but has not been seen since his capture.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The report also accuses the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza of war crimes, but the international focus has been on Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Egypt has tried to overcome this obstacle by sponsoring reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

(Sound) Senior Hamas official Ahmad Bahar told a news conference in Gaza that Mr.Abbas's rule is illegitimate and he has no authority to declare elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

But as one Hamas official put it: Mr.Abbas has dealt a "lethal blow to reconciliation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Schanzer admits that the blockade has worked to the advantage of Hamas but suggests that keeping Hamas thus sidelined may actually be in Israel's best interest.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Israel's policy since the Gaza War has been to retaliate for every attack, usually with air strikes on tunnels allegedly used by Hamas to smuggle weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid more than three years ago and has been held in the Gaza Strip ever since.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

The report also accuses Hamas of war crimes, but the international focus has been on Israeli actions which killed at least 1,100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Some Middle East analysts say it is no secret that the Gaza blockade has not significantly weakened Hamas, which Israel and the United States say is an Iranian-backed terrorist organization.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Political analyst Amr Hamzawy of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut says that while Egypt has yet to reconcile Hamas and Fatah, at least it approaches the issue with a peace-based agenda, something no one else has done.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03