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Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions

image located by Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023

Background
Logo

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Palestine

Background

The Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions) is an operational alliance of currently 12 armed Palestinian factions. It started as a cooperation effort between the armed factions of both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement, respectively the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades in
2006.

The current factions are (in no particular order):
1. Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades
2. Palestinian Islamic Jihad
3. Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
4. National Resistance Brigades of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
5. Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades of the Popular Resistance Committees
6. Mujahideen Brigades (of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement)
7. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
8. Jihad Jibril Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
9. Al-Ansar Brigades of the Palestinian Freedom Movement
10. Ayman Jawda Squads (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
11. Abd al-Qadr al-Husseini Brigades (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)
12. Al-Assefa Army (ex-Fatah, no longer aligned with it)

Sources: https://www.aljazeera.net/politics
https://alkhaleejonline.net and
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki

They have been carrying out military exercises on an anual basis, called "الركن الشديد" (English: (The) Extreme Corner, although another source translates it as Mighty Pillar or even Hard Corner) and they are always carried out in the same date as the Israel withdrawal of Gaza, the so called Disengagement from Gaza: "In 2005, 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were unilaterally dismantled and Israeli settlers and army evacuated from inside the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli disengagement from Gaza was proposed in 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government in June 2004, and approved by the Knesset on February 16, 2005 as the Law of Disengagement and Compensation for its Victims) (until March 2023 it was called "Disengagement Plan Implementation Law"). The Knesset voted in 1982 to evacuate the Sinai settlements, but the disengagement plan will require removal of settlements in areas that are considered to be part of the Land of Israel (source). It was implemented in August 2005 and completed in September 2005. The settlers who refused to accept government compensation packages and voluntarily vacate their homes prior to the August 15, 2005, deadline were evicted by Israeli security forces over a period of
several days (source). The eviction of all residents, demolition of the residential buildings and evacuation of associated security personnel from the Gaza Strip was completed by September 12, 2005. (http://www.ynetnews.com). The eviction and dismantlement of the four settlements in the northern West Bank was completed ten days later. Eight thousand Jewish settlers from the 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip were relocated."
Sources: , https://he.wikipedia.org/,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza

The launching of this coalition in the midst of The Great March of Return, was a series of demonstrations held each Friday in the Gaza Strip near the Gaza-Israel border from March 30, 2018 until December 27, 2019. The demonstrators demanded that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return to lands they were displaced from in what is now Israel. They protested against Israel's land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip and the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. It also coincided with the first coordinated action held in May, 2018 dubbed Loyalty to the martyrs to paid homage to the martyrs of the Second Intifada.
Sources: https://www.aljazeera.net/
https://www.aljazeera.net/politics
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Since its creation, there have been so far four of these military exercises. Right after the fourth military exercise it is considered that this was the prelude for what later would become Operation al-Aqsa Flood) (the attack and temporary invasion of Palestinian armed militants of several Israeli communities and outposts), referred to in Israel as Black Saturday or Simchat Torah Massacre and internationally as the "7 October attack", repelled mainly by Israel's counterattack dubbed "War/Operation Swords of Iron (Iron Swords) (the land component starting on October 27" (sources:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/order-battle-hamas%E2%80%99-izz-al-din-al-qassem-brigades-part-1-north-and-central-gaza
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/ryxl6b2116
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-secretive-hamas-commander-masterminded-attack-israel-2023-10-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08
https://albosala.com and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel.

Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023

The Logo

So far the logo of this alliance is known and has not been observed on flags (yet): it is a pair of hands holding the top of an AK-47 automatic rifle with the Palestinian flag on top towards the left and
the (British Mandate) Palestine map (in green) on the right, united by a Keffiyeh at the bottom and below the inscription "الغرفة المشتركة الفصائل المقاومة الفلسطيني" (English: Joint room of Palestinian resistance factions).

image located by Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023

Additionally, the also feature a logo for the military exercises: the logo of the military exercises is an upward white chevron, a clear indication of a force that pushes against the Gaza-Israel barrier, sometimes dubbed the "Iron Wall". It has been displayed on combat military gear worn by its participants but no display on flags (yet).

Furthermore in the symbology, the appearance of the "السهم الأحمر" (English: Red arrow, or more properly Red triangle), distinctive from the Palestinian flag, is said to symbolize the crippling of the State of Israel

Esteban Rivera, 11 December 2023