Notable Members
- Ramadan Shallah: founder, and current Secretary-General, lives in Damascus
- Fathi Shaqaqi: founder, assassinated by Israel
- Mahmoud Tawalbe: senior leader of Islamic Jihad In Jenin, killed during Operation Defensive Shield by an IDF Caterpillar D9
- Mahmoud Seader: leader in Hebron
- Hanadi Jaradat: female bomber, committed Maxim restaurant suicide bombing
- Tamer Khuweir: a 15-year-old suicide bomber
- Mohammed Dadouh: senior commander in Gaza, assassinated by Israeli missile, May 21, 2006
- Mahmoud al-Majzoub: member of the Shura Council, killed by car bomb, May 26, 2006.
- Husam Jaradat: senior commander in Jenin, cousin of Hanadi Jaradat. Assassinated in the Jenin refugee quarters on August 30, 2006.
- Ayman al-Fayed: senior commander of Gaza Strip, assassinated with most of his family in a blast in the Bureij refugee camp on February 16, 2008.
- Ziad Abu-Tir: senior member of the military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Khan Younis area on December 29, 2008.
- Khaled Shalan: Senior commander killed by an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza March 4, 2009.
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