Katāʾib al-Quds — the Jerusalem Brigades — is the name under which coordinated military operations against IDF cordons in Jerusalem were claimed on 23 March 2028, the second day of the Jerusalem Intifada. The name has no prior organisational history in the documented record.
The group’s first declared action was the simultaneous attack on the IDF cordons outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Al-Aqsa compound’s northern gate at dawn on 23 March 2028 — the latter being the same gate where Yousef Haddad had been killed the previous day. Both operations lasted approximately eleven minutes each, employing small arms fire and grenades, with the fighters withdrawing into the Old City’s labyrinth of alleys before IDF reinforcements could respond. Nineteen Palestinians were killed in the IDF response.
A statement circulated on encrypted channels described the operations as “the opening of the military phase of the Jerusalem Intifada” and stated they would continue “until the holy sites are returned to the faithful and the prisoners are freed.” The statement named Yousef Haddad and his father Georges, and declared that “the flag had not fallen.”
Hamas and Hezbollah announced solidarity operations along the Gaza perimeter and northern Israeli border later that same day.