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, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini |
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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 |
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Instance of | terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
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Region | Palestine | A former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean |
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