Zionist insurgency in Palestine (1967–present)

The Zionist insurgency in Palestine describes the ongoing civil and military conflict within the Republic of Palestine since the end of the 1967 Six-Day War. The conflict involves the Ba'athist Palestinian government on one side and the Zionist Resistance Front (ZRF) on the other, the latter of which was established in 1970 by remnants of the Israel Defence Forces which had been actively resisting the new Arab hegemony following the occupation of Israel by the All-Palestine Army in 1967 and its subsequent annexation into Palestine after the war. The conflict is one of the longest civil conflicts in modern history, and is part of the longer Israeli–Palestinian conflict which dates to the end of World War I. The insurgency manifests as a guerrilla war against the state by the ZRF, involving bombings, sabotage, kidnappings, assassinations, and episodes of military confrontations with the Palestinian Army. It represents the primary ongoing challenge to the hegemony of the Palestinian government and state; the only comparable such conflict is that between the secular government and the Muslim Brotherhood, which retains wide support in conservative elements of the large Sunni community and also has a history of political violence.

The Joint Security Committee, the Palestinian government's premier national security agency colloquially known as Emni, was created in 1967 as a direct response to the new challenges posed by the insurgent groups which would become the Zionist Resistance Front.