Popular Resistance Committees

Set up late 2000 by former Fatah and Tanzim member Jamal Abu Samhadana, the PRC are composed of ex- Fatah militants combined with Hamas , Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades activists. The PRC specializes in planting roadside bombs and vehicle explosive charges - directed against military and civilian convoys in the Gaza Strip.

The PRC have been involved in a number of bombing incidents on military and civilian targets in the Gaza Strip , including the following:

The November 20 , 2000 bombing of a bus full of children as it passed near Kfar Darom killing two.

The October 8 shooting attack on a bus carrying airport workers near the Rafah terminal on October 8, 2000, wounding 8 civilians, and a similar attack on a car on the road from Kerem Shalom to the Rafah terminal, killing the woman driver

Mortar attacks on April 28 , 2001 on the Netzer Hazani agricultural Israeli Settlement the Gaza Strip (wounding five, one seriously), and similar attacks on Kfar Darom on April 29 and on Atzmona on May 7 of the same year.

The February 14 , 2002 killing of three Israeli soldiers using large explosive charges meant for tanks, and similar killings of three more soldiers on March 14 and one more on September 5 of that same year.

The May 2 , 2004 killing of the unarmed and Pregnant Tali Hatuel , and her four daughters aged 2 to 11, on Kissufim road. The PRC and Islamic Jihad jointly claimed responsibility, also claiming that the attack was in retaliation for earlier Israeli Defense Forces killings of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Al-Rantissi . {Link without Title}

In addition, the Palestinian Authority arrested several PRC members, accusing them of being responsible for planting the explosives which, on find those responsible and bring them to justice. Palestinian officials said that because of lack of progress in the attack's investigation, the US halted financial support for the PA and placed unofficial sanctions on its accounts. After heavy US pressure, the PA tried 4 suspects in a Palestinian military court, but intelligence agencies dismissed the tribunal as a "mock trial" and said the suspects indeed were PRC activists, but not those responsible for the attack. The suspects were released in March 2004, less than one year after the attack.

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The PRC claimed responsibility for the Assassination of Moussa Arafat on September 7 , 2005 .

EXTERNAL LINKS

The Leading Palestinian Terrorist Organizations (August 2004) from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S)

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