Hamas Charter

The Hamas Covenant or Hamas Charter, formally known in English as the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, was originally issued on 18 August 1988 and outlines the founding identity, stand, and aims of Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement). A new charter was issued by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal on 1 May 2017 in Doha.

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Hamas in 2017

Hamas in 2017: The document in full

• Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project
• Catastrophes... cannot erase the identity of the Palestinian people nor can they negate it
• Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion
• There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity
• The PLO is a national framework for the Palestinian people