Popular Resistance Committee
The Popular Resistance Committee ( Arabic لجان المقاومة الشعبية, DMG Liǧān al-muqāwama aš-šaʿbīya ; English Popular Resistance Committees , PRC ) is a Palestinian militant organization. It is classified as a terrorist organization by Israel and the USA .
The Popular Resistance Committee was founded in late 2000 by Jamal Abu Samhadana , a previous member of Fatah and Tanzim . The movement unites fighters from the organizations Fatah, Hamas , Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades .
Incidents
In June 2006, the leader Jamal Abu-Samhadana was killed by the Israeli army in an air strike in the Gaza Strip . He was accused of preparing numerous attacks and acts of terrorism with many dead.
On June 25, 2006, members of the organization killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted Gilad Shalit in an attack on a military post near Kerem Shalom . In response, the Israeli army launched Operation Summer Rain .
The leader Kamal al-Nairab and the military commander were killed in an Israeli attack in August 2011.
On March 10, 2012, the committee's general secretary, Zohair al-Qaisi , and eleven other fighters were killed by Israeli drone strikes near Gaza City . The Islamic Jidad stated that they included ten fighters from their al-Quds brigades . Israeli forces responded to the shelling of Israeli territory with two mortar shells from Gaza a few hours earlier. It was also stated that al-Qaisi was the brain behind the 2011 series of attacks near the Israeli-Egyptian border, in which 10 attackers and 5 Egyptian soldiers died. In retaliation, the Palestinians fired several dozen rockets into Israel.
Web links
- bbc.co.uk (English)
- hairetz.com (English)
- guardian.co.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC online: Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza (March 10, 2012) , accessed on March 12, 2012, English