Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Definitions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini, PIJ, Palestine Islamic Jihad
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    FTO, foreign terrorist organization, terrorist group, terrorist organization
    a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
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