Hamas is a Palestinian movement that Czech news coverage describes as terrorist and that, according to information from October 2026, controls roughly a third of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is a Palestinian movement that the news server Echo24 describes as terrorist.[4] According to reports of 7 October 2026 it controls roughly a third of the Gaza Strip, where about two million people live, mostly in makeshift tents and damaged buildings. According to the daily iDNES, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip is controlled by the Hamas government.[1][2]
The attacks of 7 October 2023
According to reports, 1,200 people were killed in the attacks of 7 October 2023 and another 251 were abducted to the Gaza Strip. The reports describe them as the bloodiest attacks in Israeli history.[1][3] On 7 October 2026 the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on the network X that Hamas had unleashed barbarity in Israel at that time, whose victims were innocent people.[1][4]
Ceasefire and hostages
A ceasefire agreement mediated by the United States and concluded on 10 October 2025 halted large-scale fighting. According to reports, however, it brought neither an end to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip nor the disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups. According to reports from October 2026, after the agreement Israel kept under its control roughly 53% of the Gaza Strip, and since then it has expanded the area it controls to almost two thirds.[1][3]
Hamas exchanged living hostages and the bodies of the dead for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. According to reports from October 2026, no hostages are therefore held in the Gaza Strip any longer.[1][3]
Chronology
- — Several hundred people commemorated at Náměstí Jana Palacha in Prague the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel; the minister Boris Šťastný and the Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda took part in the event. → iDNES.cz Pražský deník
Sources
- iDNES.cz — 7 October 2026
- Pražský deník — 7 October 2026
- Lidovky.cz — 7 October 2026
- Echo24 — 7 October 2026