Hamas

Hamas appears in roughly 1 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 43.7% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages +2.97 — positive.

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 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
1
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+43.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
+2.97
positive

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Hamas mentions per day: 91 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Hamas coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 2.97 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Hamas: 89 days, latest 3165.00 on 2026-08-180.00500010000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

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”).