...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...military wing says it fired a barrage of mortars on Israeli forces in Gaza City, adding that it collaborated with the armed branch of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
While Islamic Jihad is a religiously motivated group, the DFLP is a leftist organisation.
Islamic Jihad's armed branch is called the Al-Quds Brigades.
The DFLP's military wing is the Omar Al-Qasem Forces.
Nobody's heard of them, have they? I mean, I guess they might be in a card file someplace, but they're just not very prominent.
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