A Palestinian Authority terror group loyal to Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, announced Monday that it launched attacks on Jewish cities and on IDF troops during the course of Israel's Operation Cast Lead. Other PA terrorist factions made similar boasts.
The organization's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said that its members fired nearly 150 rockets and mortars at Jewish targets in the last three weeks. Fatah claimed that its members also took part in armed battles with Israeli troops, apparently alongside its rival for power, Hamas, as well as the Islamic Jihad terror group. The Abbas-led group claimed to have targeted IDF forces in Gaza with sniper fire and explosive charges.
Another PA terrorist organization that claimed to have taken part in recent attacks on Israeli troops was a relatively new faction calling itself Eagles of Palestine. The group is apparently independent of any of the larger veteran groups.
Also taking part in attacks on Jewish targets and clashes with the IDF were the fundamentalist Islamic Jihad terror 
[Hizbullah-Palestine] sent three female fighters on a suicide mission.
group, the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and the Hizbullah-Palestine organization. The latter terrorist faction claimed in a weekend statement that it sent three female fighters on a suicide mission against an Israeli army patrol near the former Jewish town of Netzarim, south of Gaza City.
Terrorists from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as the PRC, all claimed to have fired rockets at Israeli towns in the south of the country in recent years.
On Sunday, Hamas announced a seven-day ultimatum in which it threatened further rocket attacks if Israeli troops do not withdraw from Gaza. According to the PA-based Ma'an news agency, elements from two unnamed PA factions "claimed to have launched projectiles at Israeli targets, both asserting that the acts were to confirm their right to resist the Israeli presence in Gaza."