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![[Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions]](../images/p/ps}jrprf).jpg)
image located by Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023
The Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions) is an operational
alliance of currently 12 armed Palestinian factions. It started as a cooperation
effort between the armed factions of both Hamas and
the Islamic Jihad Movement, respectively the
Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades and
Al-Quds Brigades in
2006.
The current
factions are (in no particular order):
1. Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades
2. Palestinian Islamic Jihad
3.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
4. National Resistance Brigades of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
5. Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades of the Popular Resistance Committees
6. Mujahideen Brigades (of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement)
7. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
(ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
8. Jihad Jibril Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
9. Al-Ansar Brigades of the Palestinian Freedom Movement
10. Ayman Jawda
Squads (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
11. Abd al-Qadr al-Husseini
Brigades (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
12. Al-Assefa Army (ex-Fatah,
no longer aligned with it)
Sources:
https://www.aljazeera.net/politics
https://alkhaleejonline.net and
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki
They have been carrying out military
exercises on an anual basis, called "الركن الشديد" (English: (The) Extreme
Corner, although another
source
translates it as Mighty Pillar or even Hard Corner) and they are always
carried out in the same date as the Israel withdrawal of Gaza, the so called
Disengagement from Gaza: "In 2005, 21
Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were unilaterally dismantled and
Israeli settlers and army evacuated from inside the Gaza Strip.
The
Israeli disengagement from Gaza was proposed in 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, adopted by the government in June 2004, and approved by the Knesset on
February 16, 2005 as the Law of
Disengagement and Compensation for its Victims) (until March 2023 it was
called "Disengagement Plan Implementation Law"). The Knesset voted in 1982 to
evacuate the Sinai settlements, but the disengagement plan will require
removal of settlements in areas that are considered to be part of the Land of
Israel (source). It was implemented in August 2005 and completed in September 2005. The
settlers who refused to accept government compensation packages and
voluntarily vacate their homes prior to the August 15, 2005, deadline were
evicted by Israeli security forces over a period of
several days (source). The eviction of all residents, demolition of the residential buildings and
evacuation of associated security personnel from the Gaza Strip was completed by
September 12, 2005. (http://www.ynetnews.com). The eviction and
dismantlement of the four settlements in the northern West Bank was completed
ten days later. Eight thousand Jewish settlers from the 21 settlements in the
Gaza Strip were relocated."
Sources: ,
https://he.wikipedia.org/,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza
The
launching of this coalition in the midst of The Great March of Return, was a
series of demonstrations held each Friday in the Gaza Strip near the
Gaza-Israel border from March 30, 2018 until December 27, 2019. The
demonstrators demanded that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to
return to lands they were displaced from in what is now Israel. They
protested against Israel's land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip and
the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. It also
coincided with the first coordinated action held in May, 2018 dubbed Loyalty to the martyrs to paid homage to the martyrs of
the Second Intifada.
Sources:
https://www.aljazeera.net/
https://www.aljazeera.net/politics
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Since its creation, there have been so far four of these military exercises. Right after the fourth
military exercise it is considered that this was the prelude for what later
would become Operation al-Aqsa Flood) (the attack and temporary invasion of
Palestinian armed militants of several Israeli communities and outposts),
referred to in Israel as Black Saturday or Simchat Torah Massacre and internationally as the "7
October attack", repelled mainly by Israel's counterattack dubbed "War/Operation Swords of Iron (Iron Swords) (the land
component starting on October 27" (sources:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/order-battle-hamas%E2%80%99-izz-al-din-al-qassem-brigades-part-1-north-and-central-gaza
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/ryxl6b2116
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-secretive-hamas-commander-masterminded-attack-israel-2023-10-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08
https://albosala.com
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel.
Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023
So
far the logo of this alliance is known and has not been observed on flags
(yet): it is a pair of hands holding the top of an AK-47 automatic rifle with
the Palestinian flag on top towards the left and
the (British Mandate)
Palestine map (in green) on
the right, united by a Keffiyeh at the bottom and below the inscription
"الغرفة المشتركة الفصائل المقاومة الفلسطيني" (English: Joint room of
Palestinian resistance factions).
![[Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions]](../images/p/ps}jrprf-ec).gif)
image located by Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023
Additionally, the also feature a logo
for the military exercises: the logo of the military exercises is an upward
white chevron, a clear indication of a force that pushes against the Gaza-Israel
barrier, sometimes
dubbed the "Iron Wall". It has been displayed on combat military gear worn by
its participants but no display on flags (yet).
Furthermore in the
symbology, the appearance of the "السهم الأحمر" (English: Red arrow, or more
properly Red triangle), distinctive from the Palestinian flag, is said to symbolize the
crippling of the State of Israel
Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023
