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1. 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 than Hamas
   - Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: PIJ