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Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades emerged as a military wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah", the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising, which was sparked in September 2000.
Israel accused the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the captive leader Marwan Barghouti of founding and financing it.
The activity of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has not stopped since then, but the last two decades have witnessed instances of ups and downs in terms of carrying out operations, and in terms of relations with the Palestinian Authority.
Today, Tuesday, 3 leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were martyred: Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, Islam Subuh and Hussein Taha;
After the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Old City of Nablus.
Before the "Al-Aqsa Martyrs", the "Fatah" movement operated militarily under various names;
"The Storm", "The Black Panther" and "The Hawk".
Nabulsi is one of the scenes of Fatah terror for the occupier, which will not end until the
Nabulsi occupation ends. Here is Fatah.
Nabulsi Fateh passed from here, the
knight dismounted, but he did not betray the era of the martyrs.
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— 🇵🇸🇵🇸 Munir Al-Jaghoub 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@MonirAljaghoub) August 9, 2022
Between armed resistance and popular
The "Fatah" movement does not officially adopt the military wing, and its statements and websites are devoid of any reference to it or its members and leaders.
At a time when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement, announces the adoption of the option of popular resistance and rejects armed action against Israel, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades adopts the military option, in what appears to be a contradiction between the movement's program and the brigades' approach.
Nabulsi is not the last of the guerrilla conquests
. Nabulsi is one of the episodes of the conflict that will only end with the end of the occupation.
Al-Nabulsi, a graduate of Al-Fateh School, Al-Yasser Aba Ammar School.
Ibrahim peace be upon you the day you were born, the day you were expelled, the day you were martyred, and the day you will be raised alive.
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— 🇵🇸🇵🇸 Munir Al-Jaghoub 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@MonirAljaghoub) August 9, 2022
Solve the armed formations
In 2007, Abbas issued a decree banning “all armed militias and irregular military or paramilitary formations, regardless of their affiliation.” The military wings of the factions, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, refused to describe them as “militia.”
The president's decree was followed by settlements of the status of the pursuers of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, in coordination with Israel, including integrating them into the security services or limiting their movements.
From the funeral of the three martyrs of Nablus.
This is a sale of resistance option.
All efforts to reshape consciousness, which were implemented by the Abbasid "Oslo Authority", did not succeed in tampering with the conscience of the people, even if they surrounded the resistance.
Ramallah's leadership is the biggest dilemma.
There is no choice but to besiege and isolate them popularly, while escalating the resistance in every possible way.
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— Yasser Al-Zaatreh (@YZaatreh) August 9, 2022
Between Gaza and the West Bank
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have groups and presence in the Gaza Strip, more clearly than in the West Bank, and the Brigades do not reveal the form of the relationship between their groups in the West Bank or with Gaza.
The Gaza Brigades says on its website that it is "the military arm of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah."
While the West Bank brigades rely on firearms, the Gaza brigades have developed their capabilities to rockets and mortars, and participated in repelling the Israeli wars on the Gaza Strip.
The battalions have hundreds of detainees in the occupation’s prisons, most notably the leader Zakaria al-Zubaidi, its leader in the West Bank, who has been detained since 2019.
Military action and the closing of the political horizon
With the continued closure of the political horizon and the continuation of the occupation's crimes, the battalions returned to activity, according to Munir al-Jaghoub, Director of Public Relations at the Mobilization and Organization Commission of the "Fatah" movement.
Al-Jagob added in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net that among the battalions' elements, former members of the security services "returned voluntarily to resist the occupation."
Here, he points out that the return to armed action "does not take place in an organized manner, or by paying salaries to the battalions' elements, or by moving through the remote control."
Fatah movement mourns one of its military leaders.. The
stalker Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Jabal Al-Nar Nablus pic.twitter.com/oWlWpZruSv
— Abo Mohamed (@WaleedYaseenAb1) August 9, 2022
open incubator
He explains that the closing of the political horizon, the dissipation of the dream of freedom and independence, and the failure of the Palestinian people to obtain any of their rights "has stirred up the flame of resistance and struggle in the hearts of members of the movement, and they found an incubator of a popular movement that supports them."
Al-Jaghoub added that despite the integration of Fatah leaders into the power project and the political path, "there is a popular mood that does not end within the Fatah movement, which is characterized by a revolutionary spirit."
An audio recording moments before his martyrdom.. #Ibrahim_Al-Nabulsi, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in #Nablus..says, "I love you, my mother, protect the homeland after me.
— Tamer Almisshal Tamer Al-Misshal (@TamerMisshal) August 9, 2022
The son of a colonel in the preventive
The leader of the Fatah movement points out that the martyr Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, 19, is the son of a colonel in the Preventive Security Service, and he did not live through the Palestinian uprisings, and perhaps he heard from his father the stories of his arrests and torture in Israeli prisons, so he chose confrontation.
Despite the "state of restlessness" within the Fatah movement, Al-Jaghoub points out that many members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades have avoided explicitly declaring their affiliation, and "most of them did not call themselves Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades or in their statements, and they may have been detained by the authority."
And on how to form groups for battalions in the provinces, the leader Al-Jaghoub indicated that they are mostly a group of young people whose interests met and coordinated with each other, at their own expense, "and Fatah does not abandon their families."
Al-Jaghoub suggested the continuation of the phenomenon and the work of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, "as long as the crimes of the occupation and arrests continue."
partial armament
In the same context, a source in the "Fatah" movement, who preferred not to be named, revealed that some regions of the "Fatah" movement in the Palestinian governorates directly support the battalions.
He pointed out, "The high cost of acquiring weapons, and this needs someone to finance it."
Why armed action?
For his part, the director of the Yabous Center for Studies, Suleiman Bisharat, says that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades emerged from Fatah, clearly and explicitly, in the second Palestinian intifada.
He added that the battalions were the arm through which "Fatah" tried to engage in armed action after Israel thwarted the settlement project, the Oslo Agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Maintaining the position of the movement
He added that the engagement came "so that the movement's standing and popularity would not decline on the one hand, and so that it would not lose its elements who reject the occupation practices on the ground."
The Palestinian analyst brings us back to the involvement of members of the armed wing of the "Fatah" movement within the framework of the security services, or within the civil work after its members obtained amnesty and persecution by Israel, within the vision of President Mahmoud Abbas, which is based on popular resistance, not armed resistance.
The guard of the den # Ibrahim_Al-Nabulsi Abu Fathi
Date of Birth:
10/13/2003 Date of Martyrdom: 9/8/2022
The story is over..
Nablus - the old city# Palestine pic.twitter.com/gmpYq5eFtH
— 𝐖 (@wafa_at8) August 9, 2022
Israel's practices
But he added that the Israeli occupation's continuation of persecutions, arrests, killings, and settlements was a motivator for Palestinian youth, especially those associated with a previous history of struggle, and others affected by the militancy situation.
He added that the absence of political consensus on the ground as a result of the division on the one hand, and the security commitments of the Palestinian Authority on the other hand, prompted some elements of "Fatah" to engage in the resistance work individually without any organizational adoption by them.
Here, Bisharat sees that the "Fatah" movement found in these models a way out in light of the political rivalries, and accusations of abandoning the armed struggle, "and this was what prompted it to sing about individual cases, considering that they are within its framework."
From the funeral of the three martyrs of Nablus.
This is a sale of resistance option.
All efforts to reshape consciousness, which were implemented by the Abbasid "Oslo Authority", did not succeed in tampering with the conscience of the people, even if they surrounded the resistance.
Ramallah's leadership is the biggest dilemma.
There is no choice but to besiege and isolate them popularly, while escalating the resistance in every possible way.
pic.twitter.com/2flaNo992J
— Yasser Al-Zaatreh (@YZaatreh) August 9, 2022
Struggle inheritance
The Palestinian researcher points out that there are personalities and individuals who belong to the "Fatah" movement as part of a family struggle legacy, "meaning he inherited the state of struggle associated with the Fatah movement, and therefore he cannot work in a framework outside Fatah."
He adds that this situation created groups calling themselves the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which were not officially accepted by the Fatah movement, and were sometimes subjected to political arrest or pressure exerted on them by the security services of the authority.
Organizational and personal loyalties
Regarding the relationship of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades groups with Fatah leaders, Bisharat points out that the “Fatah” movement is made up of groups with organizational loyalties to personalities: “Some personalities try out of political opposition to support armed groups for the struggle, and others actually stem from the belief in the struggle, and all this without A central extension of the movement.
He notes that the continuity of Israeli attacks and assassinations, the field competition between the factions, and the Gaza model all "work to stimulate reactions among many young people who want to work in resistance."