| NOUN | group | Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ | a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel |
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| Meaning | A militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas. | |
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| Synonyms | Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ | |
| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
| Instance of | terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
| Region | Palestine | A former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean |
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