Al-Quds Brigades

Al-Quds Brigades

The al-Quds Brigades is the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Especially active in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the al-Quds Brigades are reportedly receiving orders from the PIJ leadership in Damascus, 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 2007

In 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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