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Palestinian Islamic Jihad

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine ( Arabic : , also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a Palestinian Islamist and separatist organization.

The JIP is defined as a nationalist, and Islamic liberation movement , the United States of America , the European Union , of Australia , the United Kingdom . It is regarded as terrorist by Israel and Japan ^History

Palestinian Islamic Jihad was formed after many members of the Muslim Brotherhood found that the organization had become too moderate and was not making enough effort to engage the Palestinian struggle. Thus, in the late 1970s, the founders of the PIJ, Fathi Shaqaqi and Abdelaziz Awda, the group created to fight for the sovereignty of Palestine and the destruction of Israel.

Shaqaqi Awda and were expelled from Egypt in 1981 after the death of Anwar Sadat. The PIJ has continued its work in the Gaza Strip, until its founders were expelled to Lebanon in 1987. In Lebanon, the group was able to receive training from Hezbollah and develop a close relationship with the Lebanese organization. He thus claimed, the 4 October 1985 , the execution of William Francis Buckley (in) , head of the antenna of the CIA in Beirut , who was kidnapped in 1984 by Islamic Jihad, according to some versions , by Hezbollah according to others. Before dying, he delivered a 400-page confession his captors . A few weeks after his abduction, the administration Reagan was initiating negotiations with Iran ( Iran-Contra scandal ), which have been aimed, inter alia, to secure the release of Buckley .

In 1989, the PIJ has moved its headquarters to Damascus, where he remains to this day. Fathi Shaqaqi led the organization for two decades until his assassination in October 1995 in Malta by the Israeli secret service. After the death of Shaqaqi, Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been headed since 1995 by one of its founders, Ramadan Shallah.

The group is currently based in the Syrian capital, Damascus , but there are also offices in Beirut , Tehran and Khartoum. Its financial support is estimated to come from Syria and Iran. The group operates primarily in the West Bank and Gaza, but he also carried out attacks in Jordan and Lebanon. Its main strongholds in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Jenin. In this city, the local leader of the PIJ, Tawalbe Mahmoud , who headed the Palestinian resistance during the battle of Jenin in 2002.

Ideology

Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas , which represent traditional Islamic movements, the JIP will be revolutionary. Thus, the PIJ refuses to get involved in social action to focus on political action and armed struggle. It also differs from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement who is a Salafi while he wants an Islamic-nationalist movement and revolutionary ^References