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Hamas

An Islamic organisation which operates primarily in the West Bank and Gaza Strip whose goal is to regain the occupied Palestinian lands by Israel. On the one hand, Hamas operates overtly in their capacity as social services deliverers, but its activists have also conducted many attacks, including suicide bombings, against Israeli military targets.

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