IN PICTURES: Gaza armed groups ready for next war with Israel
Published date: 24 March 2015 00:20 GMT
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Last update: 9 years 7 months ago
Members from the Al-Saeqa Brigades and the PFLP's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades unload from a truck upon arriving to a resistance press conference in Gaza City (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Members from the armed wings of the four largest political parties in the besieged Gaza Strip - Hamas' al-Qassam, Islamic Jihad's Saraya al-Quds, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades - stand together at a press conference in Gaza City denouncing an Egyptian court's ruling classifying the al-Qassam Brigades as a terrorist organisation (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Members of the DFLP's armed wing, the National Resistance Brigades, undergo military training in an olive grove (MEE/Dylan Collins)
A member of the DFLP's armed wing, the National Resistance Brigades, suits up after takng a break during training (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Members of the DFLP's armed wing, the National Resistance Brigades, undergo military training in a field (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Members of the Nasr Salah al-Din Brigades practice military formations (MEE/Dylan Collins)
A member of the Nasr Salah al-Din Brigades (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades are the armed wing of the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees and have an estimated 3,000 fighters (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades has been one of the most active groups carrying out bombing attacks and firing rockets into Israel since the Second Palestinian Intifada (MEE/Dylan Collins)
Members of the Nasr Salah al-Din Brigades practice arming and readying missiles for combat during a training exercise in the Gaza Strip (MEE/Dylan Collins)
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