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    PIJ

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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 Hamasplay

    Synonyms:

    Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini; Palestine Islamic Jihad; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; PIJ

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Instance hypernyms:

    foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

    Domain category:

    act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

    Domain region:

    Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

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