Al-Quds Brigades, alongside Qassam and other factions, launched the “Moses’ Staff” operation in Gaza, combining battlefield strikes with a QR code warning to Israel about soldiers and prisoners.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced on Thursday that it had bombed what it described as the “Zionist enemy’s command and control headquarters” in the Zaytoun neighborhood, in the central Gaza Strip, using mortar shells.
The operation, it said, was carried out in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement.
This development comes as part of a broader campaign launched by the Palestinian resistance on Wednesday under the name “Moses’ Staff.”
The operation, led by the Qassam Brigades—the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas—was declared as a direct response to the Israeli army’s “Gideon’s Wagons 2” campaign, aimed at occupying Gaza City.
The Qassam Brigades also released footage showing fighters targeting Israeli military vehicles in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, as part of “Moses’ Staff” operations.
Resistance sources told Al-Jazeera that these actions began in recent days in both Jabaliya and the Zaytoun neighborhood, only hours after Israel announced the deployment of “Gideon 2” vehicles.
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A New Front in Psychological Warfare
In addition to military operations, the Qassam Brigades intensified its psychological warfare against Israel.
A video published on its Telegram channel under the title “Urgent Warning” featured a QR code and included images of 45 Israeli prisoners, one of whom was shown covering his face in grief. The clip, produced in both Arabic and Hebrew, warned:
“You will pay the price for your decision to expand the scope of your criminal operations in Gaza City: the killing of your soldiers and prisoners.”
Bloggers described the use of the QR code as a “qualitative development” in media and psychological warfare. When scanned, the code redirected viewers to the Israeli army’s official website, which contains a list and photos of soldiers killed in the war. Commentators said the move mirrored the Israeli army’s own practice of distributing QR-coded evacuation instructions to Palestinians in Gaza, effectively turning the tactic against Israel.
One activist noted, “Qassam uses QR codes for photos of dead soldiers. This is a development in weapons and technology.” Another wrote, “The military media in Gaza is more intense than the hail of bullets that are being fired at them.”
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Double Message: Soldiers and Prisoners
Analysts said the video carried a dual warning: on one hand, it threatened Israel with increased military losses if it expanded its offensive in Gaza City; on the other, it linked the fate of Israeli prisoners to the intensity of the fighting on the ground.
The Qassam Brigades had already warned on August 29 that Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City would be paid “in the blood of its soldiers,” and that Israeli prisoners would share the same dangerous conditions as resistance fighters in combat zones.
Israel estimates that 48 prisoners are being held in Gaza, of whom 20 are alive. At the same time, more than 10,800 Palestinians remain imprisoned by Israel, facing torture, starvation, and medical neglect, with many killed in custody, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports.
(PC, AJA)
