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	Popular Resistance Committees (PRC)
		The Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) is a terrorist organization active in the Gaza Strip.
		The PRC (and its operational-terrorist wing, the Salah al-Din Brigades) is responsible for a large number of attacks against Israelis in the Gaza Strip, both civilians and soldiers.
		The PRC was apparently the organization behind the attack on the American convoy at Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip (October 15, 2003).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/prc.html (467 words)

	Popular Resistance Committees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) are a Palestinian militant network which operates in the Gaza Strip and are regarded as terrorist organizations by Israel and the United States.
		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.
		The PRC claimed responsibility for the assassination of Moussa Arafat on September 7, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_Resistance_Committees (587 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Democracy As Resistance
		Mass demonstrations and popular uprising continued with intensified strength and the Israeli occupation force answered with huge repression that had enormous psysical consequenses not only in the number of death and injured (10% of the population after six years of intifada) but also a health disaster due to lack of food, water and medicines.
		While a popular committee in Jenin was trying to solve all the miserable problems that arrives after a massacre, the president of the United States of America, George W Bush, stated that the Palestinians need more democracy.
		A popular committee in a neighbourhood in Ramallah organised elections and the vast majority participated to elect the representatives for the coordination committee.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-09/15vera-zavala_.cfm (1534 words)

	Think-Israel
		The PRC was established by Abu Samhadana after the uprising which began at the end of September 2000, as he sought a new operational framework through which to conduct the "armed struggle" against Israel.
		PRC members did not accept the political line of the Palestinian Authority, and its operatives mistrust the PA security services for arresting some of them for lengthy periods because of actions that were perpetrated or planned against Israel.
		PRC operatives arrested by Israel said during their interrogations that its members were brought to a Hamas representative in their region after recruitment and swore an oath before him.
	www.think-israel.org /halevi.PRC.html (1978 words)

	ANTARA News :: Popular Resistance Committees : Born of the Palestinian Intifada
		Popular Resistance Committees : Born of the Palestinian Intifada
		The PRC, which has no presence in the West Bank, was formed at the start of the second Palestinian uprising, which flared in September 2000, as a violent splinter group from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement.
		The PRC's sole raison d'etre appears to be organising anti-Israeli attacks, and the wide-ranging background of its membership is a main reason for its frequent collaboration with other groups.
	www.antara.co.id /en/arc/2006/6/27/popular-resistance-committees--born-of-the-palestinian-intifada (383 words)

	Palestinian Terrorist Organizations
		The Popular Resistance Committees (The Salah al-Din Brigades)
		The four years of the recent confrontation (beginning September 2000) led to the disintegration of the organization's structure and its weakening in the eyes of the local Palestinian population, and caused internal strife between warring factions.
		PRC terrorists have various weapons at their disposal: small arms, explosives (commercial and homemade), mines, hand grenades and anti-tank rockets and mortars.
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/8_04/pto.htm (3324 words)

	Popular Resistance Committees Information
		The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) are a Palestinian terrorist network which operates in the Gaza Strip and are regarded as terrorist organizations by Israel and the United States.
		The PRC and Islamic Jihad jointly claimed responsibility, also claiming that the attack was in retaliation for earlier Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killings of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.
		The PRC claimed responsibility for the assassination of Moussa Arafat on September 7, 2005.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Popular_Resistance_Committees (759 words)

	Al-Aqsa Intifada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An investigation committee, head by Supreme Court Justice Theodor Or, reviewed the violent riots and found that the police were poorly prepared to handle such riots and charged major officers with bad conduct.
		Samhadana is one of two leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees and one of the main forces behind the smuggling tunnels.
		The IDF committee studying the issue recommended ending the practice because the policy was not effective enough to justify its costs to Israel's image internationally and the backlash it created among Palestinians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada (8030 words)

	Israel - Resistance Committees: People who side with the Reforms are "Traitors"
		Popular resistance committees, which constitute one of the biggest umbrella organizations for terrorists in the Gaza strip, have come out openly and firmly against the reforms in the Palestinian Authority which America and Israel demand (27 September 2002).
		In this connection, "the popular resistance committee praised Hizbollah and its leader Hassan Nassrallah for the support parade held during the Intifada which was carried out on the streets of Beirut on the 27 September 2002.
		The popular resistance committees' official statement illustrates the dissent in the ranks of Fatah and their apparent opposition to the security and economic reforms even after 2 years of Intifada insurgence.
	www.kokhavivpublications.com /2002/israel/10/0210020029.html (363 words)

	The Popular Resistance Committees: Hamas' New Partners? - Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi
		The name that was chosen - Popular Resistance Committees - expressed the concept of the organization's founders that the struggle against Israel should be waged by a military force combining all the organizations.
		In July 2004, PRC operatives kidnapped police commander Razi Jebali, interrogated him about acts of corruption, and demanded in return for his release that all corrupt establishment figures be fired.
		In September 2005, PRC operatives murdered Mousa Arafat, the head of Military Intelligence, who was accused of corruption and of cooperation with Israel.
	www.jcpa.org /brief/brief005-24.htm (2284 words)

	Renegade Palestinians create dilemma for Arafat / Leader must weigh responses
		In July 2001, dozens of PRC supporters surrounded the house of Palestinian intelligence chief Moussa Arafat, hurling rocks and firing shots, after some of their members were arrested by officers commanded by Arafat, a cousin of the Palestinian leader.
		Formed in the southern Gaza Strip in October 2000 shortly after the latest Palestinian uprising erupted, the PRC is a loose collection of armed young men, mainly from the refugee camps, who came together to fight the Israeli occupation outside the traditional ideological framework of Palestinian parties and factions.
		Analysts say the allegiance of the PRC is primarily local, rather than political, and is based on ties of family and neighborhood, which are stronger than membership in a particular security branch or political party.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/18/MNG4T2EGGT1.DTL (1016 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The PRC was founded by Jamal Abu Samhadana (killed in an air strike in June 2006), a former member of al-Fatah and the Tanzim.
		The membership of the PRC encompasses both the secular and fundamentalist Palestinian movements – terrorists from Hamas, the PFLP, al-Fatah and the Tanzim are all in the ranks of the group.
		PRC has said the raids were revenge for Samhadana’s death, but Hamas has been mainly blamed by the Israelis.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4211 (700 words)

	Palestinian group, The Popular Resistance Committees, rejects Cairo truce : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		The PRC said the Palestinian Authority (PA) was trying to "marginalise" the group by excluding it from the Cairo dialogue, al-Aal was quoted as saying.
		The PRC emerged as an armed resistance faction in the early days of the second Palestinian uprising and later sought to change to a political faction, al-Dahduh said, but the PA still considers it a military group and not a political faction.
		The PRC is said to be responsible for an attack on a US diplomatic convoy in Gaza that killed three Americans in October 2003.
	www.indybay.org /news/2005/03/1727719.php (421 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Profile: Popular Resistance Committees
		The Popular Resistance Committees group's origins lie in local militias that were set up in the early days of the second Palestinian uprising, or intifada.
		However, the PRC increasing moved towards launching its own attacks, especially against Israeli military and civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.
		Four PRC members were put on trial in a military court in Gaza for the attack, but they were released for lack of evidence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3196602.stm (607 words)

	מגזין הכיבוש Occupation Magazine
		The Popular Resistance Committees, a Fatah offshoot operating in the central and southern Gaza Strip, hastily claimed responsibility yesterday morning for the assassination of Moussa Arafat, a nephew of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat and one of the latter`s few relatives who remained in positions of influence.
		The Popular Resistance Committees, under the command of Jamal Abu-Samhadana, said the killing was designed to `clean out the PA`s stables of corruption,` and promised to provide proof to these claims in the form of documents and tapes.
		The Popular Resistance Committees are clearly just a cover for the individuals who ordered the killing, and they could certainly not have carried out the operation without the support, assistance and quiet consent of official and powerful security mechanisms, such as the Preventative Security apparatus.
	www.kibush.co.il /show_file.asp?num=8081 (566 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Front Page \| Israel's next move
		Israel also carries out assassinations of political officials in the Hamas movement, claiming the popular resistance committees that take part in firing the missiles are funded by Hamas and work according to its agenda.
		Abu Mazen also fears that if the resistance operations continue with such success, Olmert may be led to close off negotiations under pressure from colleagues in his government, his adversaries in the opposition and Israeli public opinion.
		The popular resistance committees are Hamas's closest allies in the Palestinian arena.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2007/862/fr1.htm (1017 words)

	Suspects held in bombing of diplomatic convoy / 6 Palestinians detained in deaths
		The Popular Resistance Committees were formed at the end of 2000, three months after the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
		Many members of the Popular Resistance Committees are dissidents from the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement or disaffected members of the Palestinian security forces, which Arafat controls.
		The Palestinian police attempted to arrest a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees in northern Gaza, but the man, Raed Abu Beidh, escaped during a shootout Thursday in the Jabaliya camp, a Palestinian security official said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/17/MNG1E2DJ5K.DTL&type=printable (950 words)

	Palestinian Civil War?
		To align the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) with the new force and consolidate its ties with Hamas, Seyam appointed Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of the PRC, to a senior position in the Interior Ministry.
		In September 2005, the PRC claimed responsibility for killing Moussa Arafat, the former head of Palestinian Intelligence, in a brutal assassination that served as a warning to others against opposing Hamas and its interests.
		The PRC supported Hamas’; demand to hold the elections for the Palestinian parliament on the date they were held, and favored its approach of finding formal religious justifications for participating in the elections.
	www.aijac.org.au /updates/May-06/190506.html (4100 words)

	Terrorism Information
		The emblem of Hezbollah inspired that of the Popular Resistance Committees, as well as those of Hamas and the operational wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Jerusalem Battalions.
		The PRC emblem has the word mukamawah (active resistance) and a number of elements indicative of the organization’s orientation: an upraised hand holding an assault rifle, a militant verse from the Qur’an and the map of “ Palestine” and a mosque (symbolizing Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem) in the interstices between the letters.
		The globe on the Hezbollah emblem symbolizes its identity as a global organization although it is centered in Lebanon, while the PRC emblem expresses its Palestinian identity.
	www.terrorism-info.org.il /malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/8_04/poster.htm (613 words)

	DEBKAfile - Gaza`s Popular Resistance Committees threaten first suicide attacks in Israel in revenge for the death of ...
		Gaza`s Popular Resistance Committees threaten first suicide attacks in Israel in revenge for the death of its leader Jemal Semadhana
		He was killed Thursday night, June 8, when 4 Israeli airborne rockets hit a PRC training facility between Rafah and Khan Younis where a PRC squad was drilling for a major attack in Israel.
		This did not interfere with the PRC launching many of the Qassam assaults on Israel, nor the ruling Hamas joining the missile offensive last week, despite its declared semi-truce.
	www.debka.com /headline.php?hid=2616 (119 words)

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		The creation of the Popular Resistance Committees at the beginning of this Intifada in the south of the Gaza Strip represents an attempts on behalf of Palestinians in these communities, (both camps and cities) to create an alternative to the PA-Israeli occupation polarity that has crucified the popular Palestinian struggle since Oslo.
		Rather, such marginalization has to do with the fact that today, Palestinian resistance forces are coalescing in different, previously uncharted forms during this Intifada, with the Popular Resistance Committees being the most structured and unified among these new hybrids.
		The PRCs are distinguished in their ability to translate a recognition of (their own) human rights with a struggle in which they are prepared to sacrifice.
	www.middleeast.org /print.cgi?category=Magazine&year=2001&month=7&num=303 (4378 words)

	Palestinian Pundit: Popular Resistance Committees reject PA platform that excludes "armed resistance"
		Popular Resistance Committees reject PA platform that excludes "armed resistance"
		This form of resistance was not tolerated by the representatives of the Vichy government on campus who called in the Abbas' goons from outside.
		Originally a group of militias dedicated to defending refugee camps, the Popular Resistance Committees formed during the second intifada.
	palestinianpundit.blogspot.com /2007/07/popular-resistance-committees-reject-pa.html (468 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com -
		Also, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terror group allied with Hamas, told WND his organization is planning attacks against Israel using weapons recently transferred to Fatah by the U.S. and Egypt.
		The Popular Resistance Committees is a coalition of several Palestinian terror groups and is responsible for scores of anti-Israel shootings and rocket attacks.
		A Committees leader told WND his group is planning terror attacks using American and Egyptian weapons recently transferred to Fatah and obtained by the Committees.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /news/story/hamas-well-obtain-us-money-transfer.html (1323 words)

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