The al-Quds Brigades is the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn Islamism ( Islam + ism; Arabic: al-'islāmiyya) a set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين - Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn
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 West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة, רצועת עזה Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية
Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada, in September 2000, the al-Quds Brigades have been responsible for many attacks directed at Israeli civilians as well as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) which have claimed the lives of 124 people, according to the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base. A civilian under International humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her Country 's Armed forces. The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB is an online portal containing information on terrorist incidents leaders groups and related court cases The group has carried out numerous shooting attacks and bombings, including suicide bombings. A bomb is any of a range of devices that typically rely on the Exothermic Chemical reaction of an Explosive material to produce an extremely This article is about suicide attacks for political and/or military reasons
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 significatively weakened by 2004 in that region. Jenin ( Arabic:; ג'נין a city in the West Bank 's Jenin Governorate, is a major Palestinian agricultural center
In the Gaza Strip, the al-Quds Brigades continued to gain strength during the al-Aqsa Intifada, despite IDF strikes which killed many of its fighters and commanders. The identities of the current leaders of the group are kept secret due to security concerns. The al-Quds Brigades, although significantly smaller that their Hamas counterpart, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, follow the same structural model and copy their pattern of attacks. Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades ( كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام; named after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
At the beginning of 2005, the al-Quds Brigades refused to join a truce negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). A ceasefire (or truce) is a temporary stoppage of a War or any Armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. As a result, the group's members continued to plan and carry out attacks that killed several Israelis. As of the middle of 2005, Israel identified the al-Quds Brigades as the main threat they face from a security point of view, considering the general restraint of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
On March 1, 2006, Abu al-Walid al-Dahdouh, a commander of the group's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, was targeted and killed by a bomb or missile as he drove past the Palestinian finance ministry. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Abu al-Walid al-Dahdouh was a senior leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and a commander of the group's military wing the Al-Quds brigades.
On August 30, 2006 the leader of the al-Quds Brigades, Hussam Jaradat, was killed in an Israeli assassination attempt. Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. He was shot in a Jenin refugee camp by the IDF.