Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Years: 1989 - 2057
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Islamic Jihad terrorists attack the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat and kill one tourist on May 2, 1992.
Two terrorists will be killed and one captured during the Israeli Defense Force follow-up operation.
Arafat faces huge problems.
He has to create new institutions from scratch and contend with widespread poverty.
Although Western donor nations have promised $2.2 billion, they make transfer of funds dependent on the establishment of new accounting procedures.
Arafat consequently is unable to do much to transform the quality of everyday life.
The fundamentalist Hamas and Islamic Jihad spur Palestinian opposition to the peace process and intensifies its campaign of terror against Israel, using suicide bombers.
An Islamic Jihad militant sets off a bomb near the Netzarim settlement in Gaza, killing three officers, on November 11, 1994.
Tensions between Arafat and his fundamentalist opponents come to a head in mid-November when Palestinian police shoot dead thirteen Hamas and Islamic Jihad demonstrators in Gaza.
Israeli Arabs intervene to negotiate an uneasy truce.
Two Islamic Jihad militants blow themselves up amid a group of soldiers near Netanya, killing twenty-one, on January 22, 1995,
An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber attacks an Israeli military convoy in Gaza, killing seven soldiers and an American tourist, on April 9, 1995.
The fundamentalist Hamas and Islamic Jihad inside Israel and the occupied territories keep up a campaign of terror designed to torpedo the peace process with the Palestinians.
A bomb on a Jerusalem bus kills five and wounds sixty-nine on August 21, 1995.
Suicide bombings at Bayt Lid in January, Kefar Darom and Netzarim in April, Ramat Gan in July, ...
However, the series of deadly suicide bombing attacks, directed against soldiers and civilians in Israel and the Gaza Strip by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, fail to derail the ongoing peace talks between the PLO and Israel.
On September 28, 1995, Arafat, Rabin, and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (often called Oslo II).
This detailed and long-delayed agreement establishes a schedule for Israeli withdrawals from the Palestinian population centers (to be implemented in several stages) and creates a complex system of zones that are divided between areas fully controlled by the Palestinians, those under Palestinian civil authority but Israeli military control, and those exclusively under Israeli control.
It also sets elections for a president and council of the Palestinian Authority, which will govern the Palestinian population in the occupied territories.
The PA will gain control over six large West Bank towns (Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Qalqiyah, Ram Allah, and Bethlehem) as well as control over most of Hebron.
Israel will also gradually redeploy from some four hundred and forty villages, which will come under Palestinian rule. Security for these areas will rest with the Palestinian police, although Israelis will be guaranteed freedom of movement.
Reaffirming the commitment made in the 1993 peace accord, permanent-status negotiations are to be concluded by 1999.
Fathi ash-Shiqaqi, the leader of Islamic Jihad, is killed when five shots are fired into his head at point-blank range.
The assassination, carried out by two gunmen on a motorcycle, takes place in Sliema, a seaside town in Malta.
Shiqaqi, who was traveling home to Syria after holding meetings with Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya, is not positively identified until October 29 because he was carrying a Libyan passport and was using an alias.
The Islamic Jihad, which has taken responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israel in the past, accuses the Israeli secret service of plotting the assassination and vows to take revenge.