The Palestinian Joint Operations Room (

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: ), also known by its full name, the Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions (Arabic: ), is a joint military operations room that includes the military arms of the Palestinian armed factions in the

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. It includes armed groups from various backgrounds, and ideologies from both the

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and the

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, including Islamists,

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, nationalists, and others.

Background

It was formed for the first time in 2006 in order to unite against Israel during clashes and wars and included

Hamas Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...

and the Islamic Jihad Movement, but it fell into obscurity. It was then developed, expanded, and was formed under its current name on July 23, 2018, among 12 military wings after clashes around Al-Aqsa Mosque, the most prominent of which was the installation of electronic gates there by Israel, in what is considered Israeli-occupied

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. It currently consists of 12 different armed groups, and has coordinated a large number of attacks on Israel including the October 7 attacks, and has also coordinated defence and retaliations against Israeli attacks.

Ayman Nofal Ayman Nofal ( ar, أيمن نوفل; 13 May 1974 – 17 October 2023) was a Palestinian senior commander in Al-Qassam Brigades, the militant arm of Hamas. Nofal was a member of the group's General Military Council, head of its Central Gaza B ...

in May 2023 explained the goals and organization of the room, which he said was to create an inter-organizational alliance to coordinate operations, and increase the potential of the "Palestinian Resistance", and for it to "become a comprehensive framework for all the organizations, networks and fighters, without exception". He also gave a list of the 9 factions out of 12 which he said were "fully unified under the room".

Members

*: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) *: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) *: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) *:

Popular Resistance Committees The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) ( ar, لجان المقاومة الشعبية, ''Lijān al-Muqāwama al-Shaʿbiyya'') is a coalition of a number of armed Palestinian groups opposed to what they regard as the conciliatory approach of t ...

(PRC) * Mujahideen Brigades: (Palestinian Mujahideen Movement) * (ex-

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, no longer aligned with it) *: ( Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) * Al-Ansar Brigades (

Palestinian Freedom Movement Palestinian Freedom Movement ( ar, حركة الأحرار الفلسطينية) is a Palestinian political party. Initially known as Fatah al-Yasir ( ar, فتح الياسر), the organization was created after the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip ...

) Ex-Fatah groups not mentioned by Nofal: * Ayman Jawda Squads * Abd al-Qadr al-Husseini Brigades * Al-Assefa Army

References

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Background

Members

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