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Armed militias known as the fedayeen grew from militant elements within the Arab Palestinians.

The Fedayeen made efforts to infiltrate territory in Israel in order to strike targets in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Members of these groups were largely based within the refugee communities living in the Gaza Strip ( then controlled by Egypt ) and the West Bank ( then controlled by Jordan ), or in neighboring Lebanon, and Syria.