Kassam Brigades
The Qassam Brigades or Qassem Brigades (also Al-Qassam Brigades ; full name Katā'ib al-Shahīd ʿIzz ad-Dīn al-Qassām /كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام / Katāʾib aš-Šahīd ʿIzz ad-Dīn al-Qassām / 'Brigades of the martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam', after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ) are a military sub-organization of the Palestinian militant Hamas . The European Union tops the organization on its list of terrorist organizations .
The Qassam Brigades uncompromisingly reject Israel's right to exist and advocate the struggle at any price. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was a militant Muslim preacher in the 1920s who led the resistance to France's League of Nations mandate in Syria and Lebanon .
Founded in 1992 under the leadership of Yahya Ayyasch (who was killed by Israel in 1996), the group’s primary goal is to build a military organization that supports Hamas’s goals. They are structured in cells , which allows rapid regeneration after Israeli attacks. In contrast to Fatah's al-Aqsa brigades, which are structured in the same way , they are subject to central leadership. The leading Hamas politician Ahmed al-Jabari , the successor to Mohammed Deif , was considered to be the commander in chief of the Qassam Brigades.
From 1994 to 2000 the brigades carried out several terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, thereby endangering the peace process . At the beginning of the Second Intifada , the group became the central goal of Israel. The strength of the brigades and their ability to carry out complex and deadly attacks surprised many observers. The Qassam Brigades maintained several cells in the West Bank , most of which were destroyed by Israeli forces in 2004. In the Gaza Strip, on the other hand, Hamas always had a strong presence: there, in June 2007 - with the support of the Hamas militia, the Qassam brigades and the so-called executive unit - after bloody fighting, Hamas was able to eliminate the rival Fatah within a few days.
In 2003 the organization tried to get possession of a drone in the Gaza Strip . However, Israel prepared them with explosives and detonated them during assembly on February 16, 2003, killing three senior leaders.
In June 2006, the Qassam Brigades were involved in the capture of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , which sparked a military conflict with Israel.
Its members regularly take part in demonstrations , but mostly masked, so that their identity remains mostly unknown. Your interference in the work of the Fatah security services in the Gaza Strip, which was instigated by the new Hamas administration in April 2006, should help calm the situation, but has increased the risk of civil war .
On July 9, 2014, they fired three M75 missiles. These hit near Dimona . The aim was the nuclear facility there .
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- ↑ Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1337 of the Council of 8 August 2019 for the implementation of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EC) No. 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures against certain persons and organizations to combat terrorism and to repeal of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/24 , accessed on November 30, 2019
- ↑ Decision (CFSP) 2019/1341 of the Council of 8 August 2019 updating the list of persons, associations and entities to which Articles 2, 3 and 4 of Common Position 2001/931 / CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat of terrorism apply and for the repeal of Decision (CFSP) 2019/25 , accessed on November 30, 2019
- ↑ Leading politicians of Hamas and Israel ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Heute.de of January 4, 2009
- ↑ Inside Hamas: the untold story of militants, martyrs and spies, by Zaki Chehab
- ↑ Israel: Rockets hit the Dimona nuclear facility. In: Spiegel Online . July 9, 2014, accessed June 9, 2018 .
