Islamic Jihad Organization
| Islamic Jihad Organization | |
|---|---|
| Leaders | Imad Mughniyeh |
| Dates of operation | Early 1983–1992 |
| Merged into | Hezbollah |
| Headquarters | Beirut and Baalbek |
| Ideology | Pan-Islamism Shia Islamism Khomeinism Jihadism Anti-Zionism |
| Allies | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Islamic Dawa Party (IDP) |
| Opponents | Israel Defense Forces (IDF) South Lebanon Army (SLA) Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) |
| Wars | Lebanese Civil War |
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| Hezbollah |
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The Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO; French: Organisation du Jihad Islamique (OJI); Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Jihād al-'Islāmiyy, lit. 'Islamic Jihad Movement') was a Shia Lebanese militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War.
The organization, advocating for the withdrawal of all Americans from Lebanon, claimed responsibility for a number of kidnappings, assassinations, and bombings of embassies and peacekeeping troops which killed several hundred people. Their deadliest attacks were in 1983, when they carried out the bombing of the barracks of French and U.S. MNF peacekeeping troops, and that of the United States embassy in Beirut.
Adam Shatz described Islamic Jihad as "a precursor to Hezbollah, which did not yet officially exist" at the time of the bombing it took credit for.