Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) held a military parade in Gaza City on Wednesday, on the 36th anniversary of the movement’s founding. Thousands of armed militants marched through the city, displaying drones and rockets mounted on trucks.
An Islamic Jihad official told AFP that about 4,500 members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian militant group, took part in the parade. “The new Buraq missiles have a range of 85 kilometers and the improved Badr-3 missiles have a 400 kilo warhead,” a spokesperson said.
“One of the missiles on display is of local production and has not yet been used against the enemy (Israel),” the spokesperson added, without elaborating. The drones shown could be used to attack targets “deep” inside Israel, he explained.
The Al-Quds Brigades are the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, founded in October 1987, and are the largest group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas. While the latter became a mass movement with a political wing, militant Islamic Jihad remained a relatively small but more extreme revolutionary cadre force.
Bloody clashes again and again
Islamic Jihad forces in the blockaded Gaza Strip have been involved in several bloody clashes with Israel in recent years, most recently in May, when days of fighting left 34 Palestinians – including six commanders of the militant group – and one Israeli dead.
Source: Krone
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