Editing Gaza Strip (section)

===Other groups and ideologies===
[[File:2013 Fatah anniversary rally in Gaza (04).jpg|thumb|A rally in support of [[Fatah]] in Gaza City in January 2013]]
Other Palestinian militant factions operate in the Gaza Strip alongside, and sometimes opposed to Hamas. The [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine]], also known as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is the second largest militant faction operating in the Gaza Strip. Its military wing, the [[Al-Quds Brigades]], has an estimated 8,000 fighters.<ref>
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1658443.stm Who are Islamic Jihad?] BBC. 9 June 2003. {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327035852/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1658443.stm |date=27 March 2009 }}
*{{cite web |url=https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016214230/http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/pij.html |url-status=dead |title=Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |publisher=NCTC |archive-date=16 October 2014 |website=www.dni.gov}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/WWW/nationalsecurity.nsf/Page/What_Governments_are_doing_Listing_of_Terrorism_Organisations_Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126041704/http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/WWW/nationalsecurity.nsf/Page/What_Governments_are_doing_Listing_of_Terrorism_Organisations_Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad |url-status=dead |title=Australian Government: Listing of Terrorism Organisations |archive-date=26 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=IslamicJihad>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/islamic-jihad-chief-dies-after-clash-with-hamas-police/#ixzz2X8KLrgkS |title=Islamic Militant Group |publisher=Foxnews.com |date=23 June 2013 |access-date=2014-08-02 |archive-date=24 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624121949/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/23/islamic-jihad-chief-dies-after-clash-with-hamas-police/#ixzz2X8KLrgkS |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2013, the Islamic Jihad broke ties with Hamas leaders after Hamas police fatally shot the commander of Islamic Jihad's military wing.<ref name=IslamicJihad/> The third largest faction is the [[Popular Resistance Committees]]. Its military wing is known as the [[Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades]].

Other factions include the [[Army of Islam (Gaza Strip)|Army of Islam]] (an Islamist faction of the [[Doghmush clan]]), the Nidal Al-Amoudi Battalion (an offshoot of the West Bank-based Fatah-linked [[al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]]), the [[Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades]] (armed wing of the PFLP), the [[Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade]] ([[ISIL]] offshoot), Humat al-Aqsa, [[Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza)|Jaysh al-Ummah]], [[Katibat al-Sheikh al-Emireen]], the Mujahideen Brigades, and the [[Abdul al-Qadir al-Husseini Brigades]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/analysis-17-palestinian-militant-factions-identified-in-recent-gaza-conflict.php |title=Analysis: 17 Palestinian militant factions identified in recent Gaza conflict |author=Joe Truzman |work=[[FDD's Long War Journal]] |date=4 June 2021 |access-date=5 June 2021 |archive-date=5 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605024417/https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/analysis-17-palestinian-militant-factions-identified-in-recent-gaza-conflict.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

Some [[Islamist anti-Hamas groups in the Gaza Strip|Salafi-Jihadis operating in Gaza]] have been using as part of their name the term ''ʻArḍ al-Ribat'' "Land of the [[Ribat]]", as a name for Palestine, literally meaning "the land of standing vigilant watch on the frontier", but understood in the context of ''global'' jihad, which is fundamentally opposed to local, [[Palestinian nationalism]].<ref>"[https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/1059351/1226_1301926747_104-20radical-20islam-20in-20gaza.pdf Radical Islam In Gaza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023184546/https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/1059351/1226_1301926747_104-20radical-20islam-20in-20gaza.pdf |date=23 October 2023 }}" (PDF), [[International Crisis Group]], Middle East Report N°104, 29 March 2011, pp. 6-7 with note 61. Accessed 22 Oct 2023.</ref>