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SALAH AL-DIN BATTALIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salah al-Din Battalions mean? 

SALAH AL-DIN BATTALIONS (noun)
  The noun SALAH AL-DIN BATTALIONS has 1 sense:

1. the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelplay

  Familiarity information: SALAH AL-DIN BATTALIONS used as a noun is very rare.


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SALAH AL-DIN BATTALIONS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions; Qassam Brigades; Salah al-Din Battalions

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:

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

Holonyms ("Salah al-Din Battalions" is a part of...):

Hamas; Islamic Resistance Movement (a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing)


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