Hamas

Hamas appears in roughly 4 monitored articles per day as of October 4, 2026. Mentions are up 55.2% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.49 — mildly negative.

The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. In July 2026, it announced the resignation of its civilian administration under the Gaza peace plan and US President Donald Trump announced that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement to disarm Hamas.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
4
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+55.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.49
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Hamas mentions per day: 91 days, latest 4.00 on 2026-10-040.005001000Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Hamas coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.49 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Hamas: 89 days, latest 3928.00 on 2026-10-020.00500010000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).