31.   The Associated Press said it had received a fax from the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas claiming responsibility.

32.   The bombing came a day after the military wing of Hamas, a Palestinian group seeking the elimination of Israel, threatened to unleash a new wave of terror.

33.   The CIA reportedly repeated Israeli demands that Arafat arrest five members of Izzedine al Qasim, the military wing of Hamas.

34.   The group runs social programs and has a military wing but no representatives in Parliament.

35.   The guerrilla was identified as Hassam Salameh, whom Israeli army spokesmen described as deputy commander of the Qassam military wing of Hamas, the militant Islamic organization.

36.   The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, is the military wing of the Party of God.

37.   The government now says the EPR is a military wing of the Clandestine Revolutionary Workers Party, also known as the Party of the Poor.

38.   The group is the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, a Fatah-dominated organization in the Gaza refugee camps.

39.   The military wing of the liberation movement has been shrouded in mystery.

40.   The new fax, from the military wing, seemed to contradict that.