In a statement released to Arabic media this past weekend, a new terrorist organization announced its intention to start operations. The group, calling itself Kataeb Hizbullah (the Hizbullah Brigades), claims to be apolitical, 
Their operatives would seek to imitate what they perceive as the success of Hassan Nasrallah's Hizbullah.
focused solely on jihad against "the enemies of Islam," and unaffiliated with the Lebanese Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorist organization. It did, however, borrow the Lebanese group's trademark chant as a closing to its communique: "Death to Israel! And death to the United States!"
Regarding Hizbullah in Lebanon, the statement declared, "All we have in common is Islam and our admiration of their resistance methods." The Hizbullah Brigades indicated that their operatives would seek to imitate what they perceive as the success of Hassan Nasrallah's Hizbullah in confronting Israel. In light of the latter's serial use of kidnapping to pressure Israel into releasing imprisoned terrorists, Israeli security analysts fear that the new organization, if it is authentic, may focus on kidnapping Israelis to extort freedom for PA Arabs in Israeli jails.
In its statement to the press, the Brigades accused Hamas and Fatah of "abandoning resistance" in favor of involvement in PA power politics. The group claims to have members from all existing PA terrorist factions who are intent only on fighting "the enemies of Islam" and staying clear of internecine rivalries.
"We are a new Islamic Sunni group which has nothing to do with the political process, but we will not contradict public Palestinian interests," the Hizbullah Brigades communique said.
The name Hizbullah Brigades has turned up in Iraq among the terrorist forces fighting American and allied troops there. Hizbullah Brigades in Iraq is very clearly an Iranian-backed terrorist organization like its Lebanese cousin.
There does exist a shadowy, allegedly Israeli-Arab terrorist organization called Ahrar al-Jalil which seems to have direct links to Lebanon's Hizbullah. The group has claimed responsibility for several deadly terrorist attacks in Jerusalem over the summer and states that it is "pro-Hizbullah" and "admires" Hassan Nasrallah, much like the language used by the newly formed Hizbullah Brigades.