Palestinian Hizballah (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah; responsible for suicide bombings in Israelplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

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