New military group calling themselves "Hizbullah Brigades" to begin
operation
Date: 04 / 10 / 2008 Time: 14:03
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Bethlehem - Ma'an - A new military group calling themselves the Hizbullah
Brigades will begin operating in the Palestinian areas as a force against
occupation, according to a Saturday statement.

The group will be made up of fighters from several other resistance factions
that the statement accuses of "abandoning resistance." Their stated aims are
to "fight the enemies of Islam," in the interests of the Palestinian
national project.

"We are a new Islamic Sunni group which has nothing to do with the political
process," said the statement, "but we will not contradict with public
Palestinian interests."

With regards to the group's ties with Hizbullah in Lebanon, the statement
asserted that the group follows Hizbullah's steps in resistance, but has no
ties with the Lebanese Hizbullah. "All we have in common is Islam and our
admiration of their resistance methods," the statement explained.

The group stressed in their statement that they would not be involved in the
ongoing inter-Palestinian rivalry. They also pledged to adopt the case of
political prisoners, detained by factions in the West Bank and Gaza as one
of their top priorities.

The statement concluded with a slogan used by Lebanese Hizbullah; "death to
Israel, and death to the United States."