“Hamas” is an excuse to justify all kinds of cruelties. It’s a Monster or Spectre that has been invented as a dehumanized repository of everyone’s blame. I am not religious and I don’t support religious parties.
gotta plead ignorance on some of this but aren't they actually a democratically elected party in palestine that would necessarily have stated goals/beliefs/intentions, etc (aside from the wider context as an organization which I think is not limited to Palestine in any case)? obviously that can be propagandized by opponents but I'm not sure it's entirely a fictional creation existing in propaganda only