Hamas remains committed to Israel's destruction and to terrorism. They have a charter.

That charter not only calls for the obliteration of Israel, but says kill the Jews wherever you find them (In Article 7 of its Charter, Hamas says, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allahs promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews. (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).

Hamas has also made several calls supporting Al Qaeda terrorism and called for the destruction of the U.S. and mass-murder of Americans: