Inside the Islamic Jihad, the group blamed for the attack on a Gaza hospital
By Melissa Koenig
Published Oct. 18, 2023, 1:32 p.m. ET

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a lesser-known terrorist organization working in coordination with Hamas, has been blamed for a deadly attack on a hospital in Gaza City.

Hamas had claimed that an Israeli airstrike killed more than 500 people, including civilians seeking treatment, at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.

But Israeli officials refuted the claim and demonstrated that the blast at the hospital was caused by a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The attack marked the deadliest escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas since the terrorist group launched its surprise attack on October 7.

Here is what we know about the Islamic Jihad and its ties to Hamas:

Members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, march during a military parade earlier this month.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the second-largest armed group in Gaza, with around 1,000 active members

Who is responsible for the attack at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital?
In a news conference on Tuesday, Israeli officials used surveillance pictures and audio recordings to prove the blast at the hospital was caused by a misfired rocket the Palestinian Islamic Jihad had intended for Tel Aviv.

"An enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit,” IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a statement.

“According to intelligence information, from several sources we have, the GAP organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital."

An ambulance is pictured in front of the burning hospital.


A Gaza hospital was attacked on Tuesday, with Hamas officials estimating the death toll at around 500.
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The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is pictured on fire.


Hamas has claimed that the hospital was attacked in an Israeli air strike, but Israeli officials say it occurred when the PIJ misfired a rocket.
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President Biden agreed with that assertion in televised remarks Wednesday, saying: “Based on the information we’ve seen to date, it appears as a result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza.

“The United States unequivocally stands for the protection of civilian life during conflict,” he added.

What is the Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the second-largest armed group in Gaza, with around 1,000 active members, according to the U.S, Director of National Intelligence.

Its goal is to establish an Islamist Palestinian state and destroy the state of Israel, according to Fox News.

Masked militants from Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, participate in a military parade on the first anniversary of the Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip.


The Palestine Islamic Jihad is said to be actively coordinating with Hamas in its war against Israel.
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The group was founded in 1979 in the Gaza Strip to fight Israeli occupation and continues to maintain a presence in both Gaza and the West Bank.

It is now led by Sec. Gen. Ziya al-Nakhalah, whom the United States Department of State classifies as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

How does it relate to Hamas?
The PIJ and Hamas are considered the two most important members of the joint operations room, which coordinates most military activity among armed groups in the Gaza Strip, according to The New York Times.

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But the PIJ often works independently from Hamas, and is more focused on military confrontations — and has rejected peace talks with the Jewish state.

Masked militants from Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, participate in a military parade.

The PIJ differs from Hamas because it is more focused on military confrontations with Israel.
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Its military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, has been responsible for many of the attacks on Israel over the past few years.

Israel and the United States consider both organizations to be terrorist groups.

What role has the PIJ played in the current war?
Aside from being blamed for the attack on the Gaza City hospital, al-Nakhalah has taken responsibility for holding captive more than 30 of the hostages Hamas took when it launched its surprise attack on Israel earlier this month.

The al-Quds Brigade also claimed responsibility for an attack on the Lebanon-Israel border on Monday, Al Arabiya reports.

A terrorist with the al-Quds brigade is pictured with a rocket.


The PIJ's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, has been responsible for many of the attacks on Israel over the past few years.
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In a statement, the al-Quds Brigade spokesman said: “We are part of this battle and our fighters are shoulder to shoulder alongside their brothers in the Al-Qassam Brigades until victory, God willing.”

What is its relation to Iran?
The PIJ, like Hamas, receives support from Iran, Syria, and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, Fox reports.

Iran, in particular, has provided rockets and drones to the terrorist organization, which got much of its inspiration from the Iranian revolution — seeing it as a movement to be modeled across the Arab world.

In that fashion, the PIJ adopted the suicide techniques used by Islamists in Iran in 1979.

Armed fighters from Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, are pictured with rockets and assault rifles.

Israeli officials believe the terrorist organization is funded by Iran.
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PIJ's founder, Fathi Shaqaqi, even shared the belief of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini that "Islam was the solution and jihad was the proper means."

Shaqaqi’s successor, Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, has also held meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran and Damascus.

Israeli officials now believe Iran is orchestrating the terrorist group’s attacks.

Worst attack on Israel in 50 years: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip over three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.

2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.

2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.

2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.

2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.

Over 1,400 Israelis are dead, more than 4,200 are wounded and at least 100 were taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli towns.



Hamas terrorists were seen taking female hostages and parading them down the street in horrifying videos.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”

Gaza health officials report at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured.

"Iran is trying for years, especially in the last few months, to have a terror organization — both the Islamic Jihad that is fully supported and financed by Iran and [the] Hamas terror organization that is also financed, but not fully, by Iran," Lior Harat, a spokesman for Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Fox News.

"They are calling them to attack Israel and Israelis," he claimed.

"Those terror organizations are working as proxies of the ayatollah regime."

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Shame

Spreading the Western Narrative .

HITdemUP:
Spreading the Western Narrative .

Terrorist everywhere

Unfortunately,some folks has already taken their side against Israel.Nothing you say matters now,all that israel is what they think…No hamas supporter has been able to answer the simple question of what the proportionate response should have been,after attacking Israel.

Lying is part of terrorists & terrorism to keep their evil operations going.

Wahabfuture:






Terrorist everywhere

Terrorist everywhere truly. Na gun some of una never get..

So people of Palestine Islamic jihad now nominated their own self by bombing their own hospital
Okay

So how many terrorists groups in gaza

baralatie:
So people of Palestine Islamic jihad now nominated their own self by bombing their own hospital
Okay

Actual Islamic kids about to run across minefields in the Iran Iraq war because In Sha Allah.

these kids were used to clear minefields for troops and were told to do it in the name of Allah.

You can Google it. It's not hidden

baralatie:
So people of Palestine Islamic jihad now nominated their own self by bombing their own hospital
Okay

Maybe you don't know what a suicide bomber is.

NOT BUDGING: The Dem congresswoman cried while repeating the now debunked claim that IDF were responsible for the bomb that hit a hospital in Gaza. https://trib.al/zDhLquG

Why There is No Peace
Michael Ramirez October 19, 2023


Hamas committed acts of war and war crimes against civilians in Israel and then thought it could just run back to Gaza and demand a cease-fire to avoid repercussions. Israel will grant a ceasefire when Hamas is no longer able to function in or govern the Gaza Strip.

Editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez. Commentary by R. Mitchell, Editor-in-chief.

A.F. Branco Cartoon – Fireman In-Chief
A.F. BRANCO on October 19, 2023 at 5:00 am

Biden Helped Start Middle East Crisis

Obama helped Iran sponsor terrorism in the Middle East and Israel today with all the money he and Biden gave them. Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2023.

'BLOOD IS ON IRAN'S HANDS': GOP senators ramp up push to refreeze $6B in Iranian funds as Israel-Hamas war rages on. https://trib.al/hByQvoB

'THEY DON'T CARE': Son of Hamas leader breaks silence on decision to denounce terror group, says they "do not regard the human life." https://trib.al/rruuJeu

This very lady and Ilah Omar were put in Congress by Qatar, Muslim brotherhood and Obama, so she's working for her money.

OLAADEGBU:
NOT BUDGING: The Dem congresswoman cried while repeating the now debunked claim that IDF were responsible for the bomb that hit a hospital in Gaza. https://trib.al/zDhLquG

A.F. Branco Cartoon – Death Squad
A.F. BRANCO on October 17, 2023 at 5:00 am

Tlaib Squad for Hamas

Tlaib and the Squad are seem to be pro Hamas and ruthless against the J6 protesters. cartoon by A.F. Branco.

A.F. Branco Cartoon – Ready, Aim, Liar
A.F. BRANCO on October 20, 2023 at 5:00 am

Palestinian Rocket Hits Hospital

The anti-Israeli Propaganda is in full swing as a Palestinian rocket hits a Hospital and blamed on Israel. Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2023.

Erasing Hamas
Gary Varvel October 18, 2023


Israel said early on that after the atrocities that Hamas committed, the end result of Israel's response would be that Hamas would never be able to govern Gaza again.

Cartoon by Gary Varvel, commentary by R. Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief

What's the difference?

Source

Unreliable Sources
Tom Stiglich October 23, 2023


The mainstream media ran with stories about 500+ babies, patients and doctors being killed at a hospital that was destroyed by an Isreali airstrike. Their source: Hamas. Just hours later we find out that it was Islamic militants who launched the rocket that hit a hospital parking lot (not the actual hospital), and that the building was not destroyed.

We’ve seen this time and again: when a story fits the left's narrative, it is told whether verified or not. When a story goes against their narrative, it likely won't be told at all – regardless of verification upon verification.

It's all just propaganda.

Commentary by Editor-in-Chief R. Mitchell. Editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich

A.F. Branco Cartoon – Gone To The Dogs
A.F. BRANCO on October 25, 2023 at 5:00 am

Biden and Iran's Dog


Biden has been having a lot of problems with his dogs biting people at the White House. It seems as though Iran has a couple of dogs that are even more ferocious, but it seems as though they’re well-trained. Their names are Hezbollah and Hamas.

It appears these dogs, Hezbollah and Hamas, have been well fed by Iran with money paid to them by the US… Biden and the US gave Iran $6 billion or more and paid Hamas $6 million, not to mention the $58 billion Iran made from oil production unleashed by Biden's policies. President Trump had put restrictions on Iran’s selling of oil that Biden cancelled as soon as he came into office.

Bottom line, you could say for sure that it was Obama and Biden who funded the terror and genocidal attack on Israel on October 7th due to their weak and ignorant Middle East policies in a desperate attempt to secure a nuclear deal with Iran and their appeasement of evil dictatorships.

Most Important Things
Tom Stiglich October 25, 2023


Israelis see their families and communities as the most important things while Hamas is more interested in destroying Israel and killing every Jew they can.

Palestinians have been offered a Two-State solution four times in history – granting them more land than they have now. They refused each time because freedom and a country they could call their own was never the goal. The complete eradication of Israel is their only objective.

The only answer is the complete eradication of Hamas.

Commentary by Editor-in-Chief R. Mitchell. Editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich

For Peace…
Tom Stiglich November 2, 2023


As long as Jews are willing to accept total annihilation, Hamas will agree. Worse than that, America's under-educated and indoctrinated college dopes are on the side of hate, while pretending to oppose it.

Commentary by Editor-in-Chief R. Mitchell. Editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich