National Resistance Brigades كتائب المقاومة الوطنية | |
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Also known as | Omar Al-Qasim Brigades |
Founding leader | Nayef Hawatmeh |
Leaders | Abu Khaled |
Foundation | 1969 |
Dates of operation | 1969–present |
Country | Palestine |
Allegiance | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
Motives | Establishing an independent secular, and Maoist[citation needed] Palestinian state with the pre-1967 borders.[citation needed] |
Headquarters | Gaza Strip |
Ideology | |
Status | Active |
Allies | State allies: Iran Syria Non-state allies: Al-Qassam Brigades Al-Quds Brigades Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades Hezbollah Jihad Jibril Brigades |
Opponents | Israel |
Battles and wars | First Intifada Second Intifada 2023 Israel–Hamas war |
The National Resistance Brigades (Arabic: كتائب المقاومة الوطنية, romanized: Katāʼib al-Muqāwamah al-Waṭanīyah), also known as Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces,[3] are the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which operates in Gaza[4] and conducts guerilla warfare.[5] Abu Khaled is one of its commanders.[6]