The great thing about a charter is that it’s there in black and white, a first-class source of information on the actual intent, as opposed to later subjective analysis of things like “context”
If a group tells you who they are in official written terms, believe them.
The context of the 1988 charter is a better start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter
The later charter removed the strident stuff which was in the context of defence against oppressors and invaders.
The great thing about a charter is that it’s there in black and white, a first-class source of information on the actual intent, as opposed to later subjective analysis of things like “context”
If a group tells you who they are in official written terms, believe them.