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| | Hamas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Hamas is an abbreviation of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Arabic: Islamic Resistance Movement), and the acronym is colloquial Arabic for "enthusiasm" or "zeal." Its military wing is known as the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (to commemorate Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the father of modern Arab resistance, killed by the British in 1935). |
 | | Armed Hamas cells also sometimes refer to themselves as "Students of Ayyash," "Students of the Engineer," or "Yahya Ayyash Units," to commemorate Yahya Ayash, an early Hamas bombmaker who was assassinated by Israel in 1996 for designing explosive devices used in operations that killed more than 50 Israelis. |
 | | those who support terrorism," including those in "terror command posts in Damascus." On September 26, 2004, Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil was assassinated by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria. |
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