Clrnc as Qs! said, it is not. They are a political party and militant group that came into power in Gaza in 2006, fostered and funded by the Israeli right who needed a bogeyman to justify their colonial and genocidal projects. Hamas remains a minority party in Palestine more broadly, and the Israeli right continues to openly advocate for their maintenance while simultaneously using their supposed presence as a justification for slaughtering civilians. As qwiss also suggested, Hamas is a product of Israeli warmongering, colonialism, occupation, and genocide, including intentionally starving Gazans with military blockades and agricultural sabotage over decades. Not only this, but there is copious evidence, including recorded speeches by Netanyahu himself, that he and others within the Israeli establishment actively worked to finance Hamas and it's Islamist precursors since at least the 1970s. Netanyahu himself actively lobbied Turkey to support Hamas financially, and facilitated cash transfers from Qatar to Hamas in the years leading up to October 7 after the Palestinian Authority cut their funding. You could see it as the PA, which is Palestine's actual, recognized government, doing more to challenge Hamas than the Israelis in a very clear and material way that can be measured in dollars and cents.
