Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigades | |
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لواء الشيخ عمر حديد | |
Leaders | Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi † Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi † Yunis Hunnar † (May–June 2015) Unknown leader (June 2015–) |
Dates of operation | 31 May 2015 – present |
Active regions | Gaza Strip East Jerusalem |
Ideology | Salafi jihadism[1][2] Pan-Islamism[3] |
Size | ~200 (2015)[4] |
Part of | Islamic State |
Allies | Mujahideen Shura Council |
Opponents | State opponents
Non-state opponents |
Battles and wars | Gaza–Israel conflict Palestinian political violence |
The Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigades (also called Islamic State in Gaza[9]) is a Islamist militant group that is a faction of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Gaza Strip.[10] The goals of the group matches the goals of the Islamic State as it wants to form a caliphate in Syria, opposes nationalism,[11][12] and wants to destroy all Jews in the country. The group was named after Omar Hadid, a militant from Iraq who was a part of Al-Qaeda.[13]
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