...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...
resistance movement says it has agreed with Egyptian mediators to stop firing rockets from the Gazoo Strip into the Israeli-occupied territories and restore calm in the besieged coastal enclave.
"After contacts between the Islamic Jihad leadership and the brothers in Egypt, it was agreed that a comprehensive ceasefire will begin immediately," the movement’s front man Dawood Shihab said in a press statement released on Saturday.
He added, "The Islamic Jihad will abide by the ceasefire if the occupation (Israel) does the same."
Earlier, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, al-Quds Brigades, said it had fired dozens of rockets from Gazoo into communities in the southern sector of the occupied territories in retaliation for Israel's killing and injuring a number of Paleostinian protesters on Friday.
It said in a statement "fire for fire and blood for blood," adding, "if the Zionist enemy wants to expand the circle of fire, we are ready to do so and ready to protect our people."
In response, Israeli fighter jets carried out intensive
s on military facilities, training posts and buildings, which belonged to Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and the Islamic Jihad, all over the Gazoo Strip.