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Noun: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini
  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, PIJ

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