Hamas was founded in 1987 with the beginning of the first violent Palestinian insurrection against Israel ( intifada ), in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank. Its founding reflected the Islamic trend headed by Ahmad Yassin, which rejected focusing exclusively on the da’wah , (the Muslim Brotherhood ideology of changing society through preaching, indoctrination and education), and added Palestinian nationalism. At the top of its priority list, Hamas put the eradication of the State of Israel through the use of terrorist strategy and tactics.
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