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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Three Arab residents of East Jerusalem were recently indicted for planning terrorist attacks for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Exploiting their freedom of movement in Israel, they were part of a plan to carry out a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.

On November 1, 2007, an indictment was filed by the Jerusalem district attorney’s office against three residents of East Jerusalem who had been detained by the Israeli security forces at the end of 2006. Two were Mamoun Abu Tir, 19, and Atallah Abu Tir, 20, both residents of Um Tuba in southeast Jerusalem. The third
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The Internet in the service of terrorist organizations: the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Internet network and the service providers by which the organization is supported (updated to September 18, 2007).

The PIJ is a relatively small radical Islamic terrorist organization sponsored by Iran and Syria and directed by its headquarters in Damascus. At the present time the PIJ is the most prominent organization in launching rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Since 2005 it has taken dominance from Hamas in carrying out deadly suicide
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A rocket fired at the northern Negev on the night of September 10 hit the IDF base at Zikim, wounding 50 soldiers.

Just before 2 a.m. on the morning of September 11 a rocket was launched from the region of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. It fell in the center of the basic training camp of Zikim, injuring 50 soldiers
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Yet another attempt to infiltrate Israel from the Gaza Strip:

IDF forces thwarted an attack on an IDF outpost in the vicinity of Kissufim by a terrorist squad of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah
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IDF security forces operating in the Gaza Strip detained a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist operative involved in the May 2004 attack along the Kissufim road in which a woman and her four daughters were killed.

During Israeli security force operations in the Gaza Strip, Jihad Salah Suleiman Abu Daher, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist operative, was detained on June 6. When interrogated by the Israeli Security Agency and the Israeli police, he admitted he had been involved in a series of terrorist attacks, including the one along the Kissufim road
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The Israel Security Agency arrested two female residents of the Gaza Strip who, guided by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, intended to perpetrate a double suicide bombing attack at a crowded place in Tel-Aviv and in Netanya

On May 20, Israel Security Agency arrested at the Erez crossing two female residents of the Gaza Strip who intended to perpetrate a double suicide bombing attack at a crowded place in Tel-Aviv and in Netanya. Planned and guided by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the suicide bombing attack was to take place at the height
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