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AL-AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades mean? 

AL-AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADES (noun)
  The noun AL-AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADES has 1 sense:

1. a militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active in the West Bank; responsible for many deadly attacks in Israel in 2002play

  Familiarity information: AL-AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AL-AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active in the West Bank; responsible for many deadly attacks in Israel in 2002

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Aksa Martyrs Brigades; al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades; Martyrs of al-Aqsa

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:

West Bank (an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river; populated largely by Palestinians)


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