1.   Fatah, derived from the Arabic acronym for Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is the pro-Arafat moderate wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

2.   Hamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, seeks to replace Israel with an Islamic Palestinian state, according to the State Department.

3.   Hamas, the Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, has a spiritual leadership of clerics, a political leadership of academics and activists, and a military wing.

4.   Hamas, the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, has claimed responsibility for most of the bloody attacks aimed at destroying the Israel-PLO peace treaty.

5.   HAMAS, the Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, had planned to bus supporters from around the autonomous Strip to Gaza City for the rally on Friday afternoon.

6.   HAMAS, the Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, had planned to bus supporters from around the Strip to Gaza City for the rally on Friday afternoon.

7.   They claimed on Wednesday to have spoken by phone with the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, known by its Arabic acronym Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.