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31. The 2006 Israeli assault on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the 2009 attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip demonstrated that rocketry couldn't be neutralized by air power alone.

32. The two countries are sworn enemies, and Syria is close to Israel's deadliest foes: Hizballah, Hamas and Iran.

33. Israel and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist group.

34. With that deal in place, it appears Israel decided it did not need to make the concessions demanded by Hamas for a ceasefire, particularly the lifting of the economic blockade of Gaza.

35. But Hamas wants the UN to work firmly under its auspices, as it would in a fully-fledged state.

36. Fatah militants also abducted Hamas official Mohammed Ghazal in the West Bank town of Nablus.

37. Secondly, Envoy Wu Sike is now visiting in the Middle East. Will China change its policy on Hamas?

38. Rumours of a round-up of collaborators with Israel, including a Hamas member of parliament, keep Gazans edgily in check.

39. The aerial raids aimed at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets are being called the most potent Israeli assault in Palestinian-populated territory since the 1967 Six Day War.

40. Mahmoud Zahar, more of a hardliner within Hamas, has called for conciliation too.

41. The video shot by Hamas militants was delivered to Israel through the efforts of Egyptian and German mediatory .

42. The key requirement is that Hamas be judged by its deeds rather than its declaratory words.

43. He also said "Syria needs to be held to account" for both housing the militant wing of Hamas and allowing Hizballah to maintain an active presence within its borders.

44. The potential exists for Hamas to morph into something entirely different.

45. But this is an all-out war against Hamas and its branches.

46. "Our sole military goal is to safeguard the people of southern Irael so that one million people no longer have to be on the receiving end of Hamas rockets, " said Regev.

47. Since 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip,(http://sentencedict.com) Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.

48. The Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said Israel must stop its attacks, lift its economic blockade of Gaza and open border crossings before any truce proposals could be considered.

49. Hamas has not renounced the armed struggle. Does China take it as a terrorist organization?

50. Israel has insisted that if it's to end its Gaza offensive, it must have assurances that Hamas will not be able to re-arm through tunnels from Egypt or other means.

51. Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused the United States used its veto "over."

52. Residents reported exchanges of gunfire between Fatah and Hamas despite a two - day - old ceasefire.

53. Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, is founded by Muslim Brotherhood members during the first intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli military presence in the West Bank and Gaza.

54. On your third question, we have never labeled Hamas as a terrorist organization.

55. Fewer and fewer have been Hamas fighters, and more have been civilians.

56. Israel's decapitation of Hamas will further weaken whatever influence Hamas had over them.

57. Israel is hinting it would trade hundreds of Hamas prisoners for Corporal Shalit but is balking at some of the names Hamas wants freed.

58. The overhaul of the law was seen as the latest measure taken by Abbas in competing with the rival Hamas, which stands against his power in Gaza since its violent takeover the enclave in mid-June.

59. In contrast, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which shares the same theology and ideology as Hamas but lacks a social-service-provision network, is no more lethal than the secular nationalist groups.

60. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist .