| March 18, 2005 | -
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that they would join the PLO.
| Source:
Haaretz
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| October 5, 2003 | -
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for a suicide attack in Haifa, Israel, that killed at least 19 people, including several children.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 15, 2003 | - The Middle East peace process continued as Israeli forces conducted a raid in Nablus, killing at least two Hamas members; Hamas retaliated with a suicide bombing, killing an Israeli settler.
The Al Aksa Martyrs brigade also carried out a bombing, killing one Israeli.
Israel killed an Islamic Jihad commander, and the group promised revenge attacks.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 29, 2003 | -
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade agreed to a temporary cease-fire,
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 9, 2003 | -
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade responded to the summit with a joint attack on an Israeli military outpost in Gaza, killing four soldiers.
| Source:
Washington Post, Reuters
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it had sent suicide bombers to Baghdad “to fulfill the holy duty of defending Arab and Muslim land.” One hundred fifty thousand Moroccans demonstrated against the war, chanting “suicide attacks lead to freedom,” and there were reports that the Moroccan government had offered to send 2,000 monkeys to Iraq to help clear land mines.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
A Palestinian exploded in Netanya, Israel, and wounded three dozen people.
Islamic Jihad said the attack was a gift to the Iraqi people.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
Sheikh Abdallah al-Shami of Islamic Jihad confirmed that his group had sent the bomber, and he said that Arafat can do nothing to stop such attacks: “The Palestinian Authority is broken; its institutions are destroyed,” he said.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Yasir Arafat declared a state of emergency and arrested 110 suspected Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Sbarro restaurant in downtown Jerusalem; at least 18 people, including 6 children, were killed.
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