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Major settlement?[edit]

See this paragraph from the article, emphasis mine:

"The forces are mainly divided into five brigades divided geographically. Each brigade is divided into multiple battalions with 30 total battalions. Each battalion is responsible for major settlement although they may be relocated and change their areas of responsibility during conflicts."

Should this be "Each battalion is responsible for a major settlement"?

If so, whose settlements: In the Gaza Strip? The Occupied Territories overall? Something else?

I think UtoD added this content. Can you explain what you meant or edit the passage in the article so it is clearer please? FeralOink (talk) 16:56, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This needs a section about propaganda[edit]

Here's some ideas. (in no particular order) Some of this is a bit "original resesrch" or "synthesis", but I cannot possibly be the only one who's noticed this? There must be sources where people have already described these things?

The Al Qassam Military Chior is a thing that exists
Hamas & Al Qassam propaganda incompatible with Islamic fundamentalism

most prominently in the use of music that features musical instruments
also in artistic depictions of the human form
They had a political in Gaza 14 December 2022 that looked more Iron Maiden than ISIS (But also a bit BJP rally)

Military Parades (there's mountains of footage of this on YouTube posted by Associated Press and others) I presume Hamas did these? But at this moment I can only recall seeing PIJ, PFLP, etc.
Videos

a few specific types of video ?

October 7 footage

The contrast between the rumours about what the 7 October footage shows and what's actually there

go pro
red triangle videos
highly produced shorts that I strongly suspect these are made in Lebanon? But I can't find any OSINT type people even trying to geolocwte them

highly visual / trans lingual
get republished by news media

difference in what's shown by Arabic vs English networks, even for broadcasters like TRT and Al Jazeera that do both

e.g. the Mohamed Deif speech announcing Al Aqsa Flood

11 minute original in Arabic

8 minutes published by Al Jazeera Arabic

about one minute translated by AJ English

telegram

blocked on some platforms
other social media

This could be a whole article, but let's srart it as a section here and then split it off if it grows? Irtapil (talk) 10:06, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made a section on the military media and red triangles The Great Mule of Eupatoria (talk) 04:06, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Military nature[edit]

In my opinion, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades have all the features of a military organisation: they are an armed force, with a definite hierarchy, they do have a plurality of signs of recognition worn as uniform, they are the de facto standing military organisation of a de facto state (mostly Gaza Strip). --Mach1988 (talk) 11:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As it happens, the sources in the lead all support "military wing", not "paramilitary" anything, so not sure where that really came from in the first place. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Terrorist Entity[edit]

New Zealand now declares Hamas as a whole a terrorist entity Ethoori (talk) 09:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add the Al Qassam logo[edit]

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We should the logo of the Al Qassam brigade, i do not have permission to do so (format using {{textdiff}}):
It should be added cause its a pretty piece of information on the Brigades :
its pretty obvious but here, https://jihadintel.meforum.org/group/45/hamas, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_EnG0zXYAAO7hG?format=jpg&name=4096x4096, https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREi4mQdoJLtUVPwoMHsgeWENs0qho993NOnTL_f_otlA&s, https://jihadintel.meforum.org/group/45/hamas (format using the "cite" button):

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References

SonicXMasako2 (talk) 16:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: These appear to be copyrighted images, which we cannot use per the image use policy. The first site says copyrighted at the bottom of the page. The second 2 are CDN links with no context, but are most likely copyrighted as well. Jamedeus (talk) 06:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]