Qassam Brigades
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- proper noun
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Brigadas Qassam
- The Qassam Brigades benefited from the capture of a large arsenal from the PA following the coup.
Examples
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Instead, individuals associated with the Qassam Brigades, such as Ahmad Jabari and Marwan Issa, were elected to the Gaza Political Bureau.
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Palestinians walk amongst the debris of the house of Ezzedine Haddad, commander of the armed wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, after it was destroyed during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.
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"From the Al-Qassam Brigades to the Zionists: Don't go to sleep, because we may get you in your sleep."
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Then there was this from the Al Qassam Brigades in Gaza: "#Israeli air force shelling house of Al Askari's family."
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Militant operations carried out by Hamas' underground Iss al-Din Qassam Brigades.
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Most crucially, the control by the exiled leadership of the movement's sources of income gave it, among other things, financial control of the movement's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.
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In response to Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense, which aims to cripple the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and protect Israeli civilians, Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has produced videos addressing Israelis.
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These were the movement's long-standing armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and the Executive Force, which Hamas had been building up around the Interior Ministry held by Fathi Hamad in Gaza.
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The Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for several attacks against Israeli military targets.
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The Qassam Brigades have been involved in various operations to defend Palestinian territories.
Synonyms
An armed group linked to Hamas that carries out attacks against Israeli targets
An armed group linked to Hamas that attacks Israel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Qassam + brigade
The element 'brigades' clearly signals a military unit, so a learner who knows 'brigade' can infer this is the name of some armed group. However, the proper name 'Qassam' gives no semantic content to indicate affiliation with Hamas or the specific activities (e.g. organized attacks or suicide bombings), so the full, specific meaning cannot be derived from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Qassam Brigades comes from Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preacher and fighter who opposed British rule in the early 1900s. Qassam is the man's name and Brigades means military groups, so the name shows it is the 'armed wing' or fighting part of Hamas.