What Is The Popular Resistance Committee?
You may have heard about the Popular Resistance Committee and wondered what is was, or how it relates to what’s going on in Gaza and Israel. Here’s a recap:
On Friday, March 9th 2012, IAF forces targeted a PRC squad who had been planning a combined terror attack meant to take place via Sinai in the coming days. This sparked a barrage of rocket fire towards the towns in southern Israel, injuring four and causing damage to property.
Zahir Kaisi, the senior PRC operative targeted this Friday. Source: http://www.raya.fm/
So who are the PRC?
The Popular Resistance Committee was founded in September 2000, and since has categorically refused any form of reconciliation with Israel. The PRC acts as a sub-contractor for Iranian elements in Lebanon and within the Hezbollah, carrying out terror attacks against Israelis in return for funds.
The PRC are funded and supported directly by Hamas, the terror organization controlling Gaza. By allowing the PRC to operate as an ostensibly independent proxy, Hamas is able to carry out terror attacks against Israelis while maintaining an official stance of “restraint”. In addition to monthly funding, Hamas also provides the PRC with weapons and battle training.
Emblem of the Popular Resistance Committee
List of Terror Attacks Against Israel
- June 21, 2009: An IDF force on routine patrol identified four IEDs placed along the border fence near Kissufim (central Gaza Strip). As the IEDs were being disarmed operatives fired two mortar shells and live fire at the force.
- July 5, 2009: Three mortar shells were fired at an IDF patrol near the Sufa Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
- July 23, 2009: A group of Israelis working near the Sufa crossing came under fire. After the incident, fire was opened at an IDF force that was patrolling the area.
- January 1, 2010: Four mortar shells were fired at the village of Kerem Shalom and a rocket was fired at Kissufim.
- March 1, 2010: An anti-tank rocket was fired at an IDF force conducting a sweep near the security fence in the Beit Lahiya region (northern Gaza Strip).
- May 21, 2010: During a routine IDF patrol near the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip, an IDF tracker was shot and seriously wounded by sniper fire.
- July 30, 2010: A 122-mm Grad rocket landed in the city of Ashkelon. A local civilian was treated for shock. It was the first standard rocket fired in over a year and a half.
- August 18, 2011: Egged Bus #392, en route to the popular resort destination of Eilat, was ambushed by PRC terrorists, who opened fire on the bus’s passengers, injuring fourteen.
- Almost simultaneously, a bomb tore through another civilian bus, killing the driver. Sisters Flora Gaz and Shula Karlinsky and their husbands were on their way home from Eilat when they were murdered by PRC terrorists who ambushed them and fired an anti-tank missile at their car.
- PRC terrorists then shot and killed Staff Sergeant Moshe Naftali and Chief Warrant Officer Paskal Abrahami.
Bus No. #393 was shot en route to Eilat.
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