Al-Quds Brigades
Palestinian paramilitary organisation
Al-Quds Brigades
Al-Quds Brigades (Arabic: سرايا القدس, romanized: Sarāyā al-Quds, lit. ''Jerusalem Companies'') is a paramilitary organization and the armed wing of the Islamist Palestinian organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ), which is the second largest armed group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas. The Al-Quds Brigades (AQB) leader is Ziyad al-Nakhalah, based in Damascus, Syria. Before he was killed in 2019, the head of AQB in the Gaza Strip was Baha Abu al-Ata. AQB's parent organization, PIJ, is devoted to the establishment of an Islamic state and the settlement of Palestinians in what it considers their rightful homeland (i.e., within the geographic borders of the pre-1948 Mandatory Palestine). It refuses to participate in political processes or negotiations about a swap of Israeli and Palestinian settlements. The PIJ is funded mostly by Iran, having previously received funding from Ba'athist Syria as well, before the fall of the Assad regime in 2024. In 2026, the Al-Quds Brigades consented...
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