Hamas Timeline of Events

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Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...

Timeline of Events

1996

1.5.1996

Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

2001

6.1.2001

Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

2002

7.22.2002

Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

2003

3.5.2003

In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.

2004

3.22.2004

Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.