- Al-Quds Brigades
The
al-Quds Brigades is the armed wing of thePalestinian Islamist organizationPalestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Especially active in theWest Bank and theGaza Strip , the al-Quds Brigades are reportedly receiving orders from the PIJ leadership inDamascus ,Syria .The al-Quds Brigades were very active in the West Bank, especially in the town of
Jenin , but extensive operations against its infrastructures carried out by the IDF resulted in severe losses to the group, and it appeared significantly weakened by 2004 in that region.Fact|date=February 2007In the Gaza Strip, the al-Quds Brigades continued to fight for their cause, which is to return Palestinians to their righful homeland, Jerusalem. As of the middle of 2005, Israel felt the al-Quds Brigades to be their main threat from a security point of view, considering the general restraint of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.Fact|date=February 2007
On
March 1 2006 Abu al-Walid al-Dahdouh , a commander of the group's military wing, was targeted and killed by a bomb or missile as he drove past the Palestinian finance ministry.On
August 30 2006 the leader of the al-Quds Brigades,Hussam Jaradat , was killed by Israeli assassins. He was shot in a Jenin refugee camp by the IDF.fact|date=August 2008
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