All the raison d’etre of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is to slaughter as many Jews as possible, and they don’t have any political aspirations.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/10/15/analyst-israels-costly-misunderstanding-of-hamas-true-aims-2/

A member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group walks in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, on April 17, 2022, during a media tour amid escalating violence with Israel.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/like-fighting-ghosts-the-challenge-the-idf-faces-in-destroying-hamass-tunnels/

An estimated 500 terrorists belonging to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly received specialized combat training in September from the Quds Force, the special operations unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/26/the-hamas-hostage-crisis-new-front-in-irans-proxy-war/

Another key group playing a central role in the fighting with Israel, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, boycotted the gathering to protest the detentions by the Palestinian Authority of its members, according to the group's leader, Ziyad al-Nakhala.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/egypt-ap-palestinian-hamas-fatah-b2384469.html

Aside from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad the attack, the “moderate” Fatah in it, and the official Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who executed the attack.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/28/tone-deaf-biden-still-pushing-failed-two-state-solution-israel/

As Palestinian Islamic Jihad stepped up its rocket attacks against Israel last week, the BBC was busy cooking up a new angle from which to cover the conflict: how to apportion blame for cancer patients dying in Gaza.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/05/15/broadcaster-faults-israel-for-terrorist-rockets-preventing-urgent-cancer-care/

Because Palestinian Islamic Jihad was the easier target.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/opinion/international-world/israel-hamas-attack.html

Hamas didn’t provide the guns, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades didn’t offer any training and Palestinian Islamic Jihad didn’t help Khayri or Aliyat identify soft targets.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/terrorism-news/lone-wolf-arab-terrorists-inspired-by-islamist-incitement/2023/01/31/

“I am deeply alarmed by developments in Gaza after Israel launched a military operation this morning targeting members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ),” he said in a statement.

Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/breaking-gaza-under-intense-israeli-bombardment-many-killed-wounded-live-blog/

Last month, Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (“Operation Shield and Arrow”) in Gaza fought a five-day conflict, during which the terrorist group fired more than 1,250 rockets at Israeli communities.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/gaza/israel-green-lights-gaza-offshore-gas-field/2023/06/18/

Members of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations release Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Rafah, in southern Gaza, November 28, 2023.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/russia/hamas-releases-2-russian-israeli-hostages-in-deference-to-russias-pres-vladimir-putin/2023/11/29/

On October 18, 2023, a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad struck a parking lot near al-Ahli Hospital.

Source: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/hospitals-hamas-style.php

On Sunday, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, arrived in Egypt for talks.

Source: https://www.kurv.com/a-weekend-of-combat-in-gaza-kills-15-israeli-soldiers-as-public-support-for-the-war-is-tested/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-weekend-of-combat-in-gaza-kills-15-israeli-soldiers-as-public-support-for-the-war-is-tested

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakhaleh releases a statement claiming that the group is holding more than 30 of the Israeli hostages currently in Gaza.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-8-2023/

The intelligence headquarters was responsible for all of Hamas’s intelligence activity in the Khan Younis area, the IDF said, adding that it also located a command center belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the same complex.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-push-deeper-into-central-and-southern-gaza-amid-airstrikes/

The Israeli military denies involvement and blamed a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group.

Source: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/national/23863002.biden-says-gaza-hospital-blast-done-team-not-israel/?ref=rss

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has strongly condemned Israeli forces for breaking into a prayer area on the eastern wall of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Source: https://english.almanar.com.lb/1822922

There has been a recent surge of popularity in the West Bank for Hamas, the second-largest Palestinian party and the ruling party in Gaza, and for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Source: https://themedialine.org/by-region/fatah-affiliated-group-loses-university-election-suggesting-public-dissatisfaction-with-pa/

Three of those killed in Jenin were allegedly affiliated with the Hamas militant group or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1814768/israeli-forces-palestinian-deaths-west-bank-gaza

Yet a little over a year later, in July 2022, it cleverly sat out a clash between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), as the IDF pulverized PIJ operatives and positions.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/24/hamas-is-planning-the-next-war-is-israels-current-government-ready/