Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad - 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 Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini, Palestine Islamic Jihad, PIJ 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 Palestine - a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948