Of course it is a Jihad. Here is the daliil.
Permission (to fight) is given to those who are being attacked, because they have been wronged. And surely God measures out help for them. - Surah al-Hajj verse 39
God does not forbid that you do good and make justice for those who do not fight you in the religion or drive you out from your homes. Indeed, God loves those who do justice. God only forbids your friendship with those who fight you in the religion and drive you out from your homes and back those who drive you out. And who befriends them, such are wrongdoers. - Surah al-Mumtahana verses 8-9
And what is with you that you do not fight in the path of God and (in the path) of the oppressed of men and women and children, those who say "Our Sustainer, take us out from this city, its people are wrongdoers, and decree for us a protector, and decree for us a helper". - Surah an-Nisa verse 75
Thousands forced to flee their homes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01091.htmlWadaads getting killed inside Masjid
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24275931/Targeting civillians
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05 ... topstories